Comparison of Minitab and IBM SPSS

1. Easy to learn and easy to use. SPSS is menu-driven; the software is very easy to use. Like Minitab, most of the functionalities in SPSS are organized into pull-down menus in a very intuitive way. The learning curves for SPSS and Minitab are similar. 2. SPSS is generally stronger in statistical analysis, especially in some specific area, such as ANOVA-related procedures. The add-on modules give SPSS further flexibility and potentials to develop its capacities. However, for cutting-edge statistical analysis, SPSS is stronger than Minitab. So SPSS is most suitable to you if your work involves large dataset, frequent data management, and intermediate/partially-advanced statistical analysis. 3. SPSS Statistics is loaded with powerful analytic techniques and time-saving features to help you quickly and easily find new insights in your data, so you can make more accurate predictions and achieve better outcomes for your organization. 4. View interactive SPSS Statistics output on smart devices (smartphones and tablets) and Generate presentation-ready output quickly and easily 5. Enhanced Monte Carlo simulation to improve model accuracy with a. Ability to fit a categorical distribution to string fields b. Support for Automatic Linear Modeling (ALM) c. Generate heat maps automatically when displaying scatterplots in which the target or the input, or both, are categorical d. Automatically determine and use associations between categorical inputs when generating data for those inputs e. Generating data in the absence of a predictive model 6. SPSS Advanced Statistics offers generalized linear mixed models (GLMM), general linear models (GLM), mixed models procedures, generalized linear models (GENLIN) and generalized estimating equations (GEE) procedures.

Comparison of Minitab and IBM SPSS in ANOVA

Product

One-way

Two-way

MANOVA

GLM

Mixed model

Post-hoc

Latin squares

Minitab

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

SPSS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Comparison of Minitab and IBM SPSS in Regression

Product

OLS

WLS

2SLS

NLLS

Logistic

GLM

LAD

Step wise

Quantile

Probit

Cox

Poisson

MLR

Minitab

Yes

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

No

No

No

No

SPSS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

OLS 2SLS LAD MLR

Ordinary Least Squares 2 Stage least Squares Least Absolute Deviation Multiple Linear Regression

WLS NLLS GLM

Weighted Least Squares Non Linear Least Squares Generalized Linear Models

Comparison of Minitab and IBM SPSS for Operation System Support

Product

Windows

Mac OS

Linux

BSD

Unix

Minitab

Yes

No

No

No

No

SPSS

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Comparison of Minitab and IBM SPSS for Charts and Diagrams

Chart

Bar chart

Box plot

Correlogram

Histogram

Line chart

Scatterplot

Minitab

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

SPSS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Product

Descriptive statistics

Nonparametric statistics

Quality control

Survival analysis

Data processing

Base stat

Normality test

CTA

Nonparametric comparison, ANOVA

Cluster analysis

Discriminant analysis

BDP

Ext.

Minitab

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

SPSS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes