[PLUG] Minitab dilemna...

[Aaron Jorbin]

I'm not familiar with Minitab or it's feature set ( I used SPSS in
college), but there are plenty of free alternatives.

R - http://www.r-project.org/ - is a stats programming language.
Gretyl - http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ - is more for econ regressions,
but might work
PSPP - http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/ - is built as a free
alternative to spss

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Free_statistical_software lists many
more alternatives.

On 10/1/09, Michael Robinson <plug_1 at robinson-west.com> wrote:
> It looks like it is atrociously expensive to buy a licensed copy and
> worse than that, it requires from what I can tell a Windows XP system
> that has 512 megs of ram.  I don't have that.  I have my Linux system
> with 512 megs of ram.
>
> What is the ultimate alternative to using Minitab 15?  I'm needing
> to use it for a stats course.  Unfortunately, I don't know of any
> way to use it remotely.  Do the Windows computers at PSU have any
> means of being accessed remotely?
>
> I have the demo version of Minitab 15 which I dowloaded last night,
> but that is only a 30 day solution and then I guess I have to rent
> 2 more months.  Man this Minitab outfit is ridiculous.
>
> Will Crossover Linux, the most recent version perhaps, run Minitab 15?
>
> I suppose I have a laptop that is in use now by my father with 512 megs
> of ram and Windows XP, but it's in use.  I actually have a Pentium 4
> desktop computer with a 1.80 Ghz processor and 256 megs of ram, but
> that isn't enough ram to run Minitab and I don't know what kind of
> DIMMs it takes.  It's an SIS micro atx board.
>
> So I'm stuck either grabbing a copy of XP somehow and dual booting on
> my Linux system, running Minitab via Wine, or using something else.
>
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