While I, most of the life have been using is SPSS, I wonder is there any other software which can be used by people who are non-statisticians
What software do you suggest?
Any software can be used by non-statisticians. Unfortunately, some software makes it easy for people to fail to check for problems with their data, to do the wrong test and to publish wrong findings.
So your question is kind of like Can anyone recommend a brain surgery kit for people who aren't brain surgeons?
JMP from SAS is an easy enough software to use off a desktop. It has Design and Analysis of experiments
I think, for a rather simple study, it is better to opt for Sphinx. But if the study is complex, and requires a lot of analysis, then it is better to use SPSS.
MS Excel is User friendly for Non Statician person. While SPSS, SAS, R Softwares can be used by Experts. Regards
A note on Excel. It's awful. The many uncorrected errors in the statistical routines have been well documented over the years, and remain unfixed by Microsoft, who clearly don't care.
Plus, Excel doesn't leave an audit trail that allows you to show the process of data preparation and analysis. So if breaks the FAIR data principles.
Article On the accuracy of statistical procedures in Microsoft Excel 2007
The authors conclude : No statistical procedure in Excel should be used until Microsoft documents that the procedure is correct; it is not safe to assume that Microsoft Excel’s statistical procedures give the correct answer. Persons who wish to conduct statistical analyses should use some other package.
Microsoft has, of course, never documented the accuracy of any of Excel's procedures, and you can very easily show that they are capable of producing nonsense results.
SPSS (IBM) – Graphical user interface
R (R Foundation for Statistical Computing) – require coding experience
MATLAB (The Mathworks) – require coding experience
Mathematica (Wolfram) – require coding experience
I'd also suggest Minitab or SPSS. There are a lot of training videos on the web that are designed for individuals without a background in statistics.
MicrOsiris is easy to use, has decision tree for selecting statistics to use, embedded warnings about assumptions.
Since l have tried to learn the software myself and succeeded, l recommend user friendly IBM SPSS.
SPSS is an easy software to learn by yourself.
For SEM: Smart PLS. I am currently applying analysis of my Ph.D. thesis via Smart PLS and Smart PLS is a more pratical software, has a better interface and simpler to use.
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