Minitab is an advanced statistical and data analysis software designed to help users make informed decisions through data-driven insights. It provides a wide range of tools to help users analyze data and uncover relationships between variables, draw statistical conclusions, and visualize results in meaningful ways. With its interactive and user-friendly interface, Minitab simplifies and streamlines the process of collecting, organizing, analyzing, and interpreting data for a variety of purposes. Whether it’s for research, education, business, or personal use, Minitab provides users with the tools they need to make informed decisions quickly and accurately.
R is much more powerful and versatile.
R is a programming language, even if it is somewhat specialized. Minitab is an application that facilitates statistical analysis. In R, you write code, in Minitab you click and select various graphs and statistics to calculate. Sure, Minitab has some scripting capabilities, but so does Excel ...
For basic statistics such as descriptive statistics, ANOVA, T-test, Linear regression are also available. It is easier to use, but the functionalities are limited for professional statistical analysis.
I used Minitab for basic statistical analysis such as t-test, ANOVA test and regression analysis. The results of the basic statistical analysis are comparable to those of Number Analytics. For those starting to learn basic statistics, they would benefit from Number Analytics because it is free for basic statistics. The basic plan is limited to using a data file of less than 2M bytes, but for learning statistics, it would be good enough.
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For R an extension (library) "R commander" exists, which brings a GUI to perform most of the things that Minitab is capable of ...