Hey Samreen,

I don't know what type of software you would like to use. Minitab is easier software than SPPS, however, sometime you need more than one software to do analysis. You can use R if you want to use command language. It is very good for statistical analysis.

Link for Minitab:

http://www.minitab.com/en-us/

Good luck

R has a very nice point and Click GUI in the package Rcommander. R is also much more powerful than SPSS. See link for all the details you need.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1&biw=1600&bih=825&ei=WMVsW-vxHYzfjgSrsrDIAg&q=R+Commander&oq=R+Commander&gs_l=psy-ab.12...0.0.0.19895.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1c..64.psy-ab..0.0.0....0.SBKUhOBvcJ0

I have also attached an introductory R book that may be valuable after you get some experience. Best wishes, David Booth PS R is completely without cost.

Hello Ms. Ali

I will try to answer your question in different way.

A. SPSS and SAS

1. There are many similarities between Statistical Software Packages (SPSS, SAS, R, Stata, JMP, …) in the logic and wording they use even if the interface is different.

2. Many schools offer only a site license for only one package, and it may not be the one you’re used to.

3. Statisticians, social scientists, … should generally learn SPSS as their main package, mainly because that is what their colleagues are using.

4. SPSS is used by market researchers, health researchers, survey companies, government entities, education researchers, marketing organizations, data miners, and many more for the processing and analyzing of survey data.

5. IBM SPSS Statistics software can help you find new relationships in the data and predict what will likely happen next.

B. References:

1. Landau, S. and Everitt, B. S.(2004). A Handbook of Statistical analyses using SPSS.

2.Howitt, D. and Cramer, D.(2008). Introduction to SPSS.

3. Ron P. Cody and Jeffrey K. Smith (2006). Applied Statistics and the SAS Programming Language (5th Edition).

4. Ron Cody (2011 ). SAS Statistics by Example (1st Edition)

C. Attached are very simple and useful document in SPSS, which can make SPSS very easy .

Regards,

Zuhair

Dear Samreen Ali ,

Other than SPSS, STATA is also very simple to use, many of the Govt Departments are using this for their official reports. Other Tools are R, Python, EViews etc..

Do let us know in case of any queries related Statistical Analysis/Modelling.

Regards,

Abhay

thanks to all of you