1. N U I T, Research Support
Our remit is to support researchers and includes support in:
Statistical Computing
Numerical Analysis (Condor, HPC, cloud computing, etc.)
Internet Tools (website development, collaboration through the net with other researchers within and outside NU(Sakai), Wikis, blogs, mobile applications
Training in the above

2. Statistical Computing Support / Advice
Staff
Postgraduate Students (Master and PhD)
Website:
If you need help get in touch:
also copy to
Based in Claremont Tower

3. Stats News Mailing List
To subscribe go to:
Community of Users

4. Research Data Management (RDM)
What do you understand by research data?
Why do you think managing your research data is important?
RDM is becoming very important and includes:
Creating, Processing, Analysing, Preserving, Giving Access, and Re-using your research data
RDM at NCL

5. Other Statistic Software Training
Dr Collin Gillespie:
Mr David McGeeney: Practical Statistic

6. Text Analytics Anyone currently involved with text analysis? Software?
Open ended questions
Social media
document

7. Introduction: Why use SPSS, Minitab, SAS or Excel?
There are many statistic software e.g. STATA, PRISM, STATISTICA, CLUSTAN, GENSTAT, Mathematica, GLIM, SPLUS, JMP, R, etc
Some Definitions
Availability of Basics Statistics
Original Intent of the Software
Ease of Use
Industrial Vs Academic Usage
Frequency of New Releases
Operating Platform (Systems)
Graphics Output
Advanced Statistics
Availability of help Interpreting Output
Availability of Technical Support
Online Getting Started Tutorial / Online forum
Onscreen Statistics Wizard
Design of Experiment
Prospective and Retrospective Power Analysis
Interchanging Files with Other Software
Getting Output (results of analysis) into Other Software
Programming Language
Automatic Updating of Output after adding more Data
Pivot Tables availability and Interactivity
Text Analytics
ANOVA, Regression and Time Series Analysis
Popularity and Peer Pressure
Questions

8. Some Definitions
SPSS: Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (IBM SPSS Statistics these days)
SAS: Statistical Application Systems (Just SAS these days)
Minitab
Excel
SPSS, SAS, and Minitab are statistical packages while Excel is a spreadsheet

9. SPSS
Descriptive (Summary) Statistics Options
Minitab
Excel
SAS EG

10. Advanced Statistics: Model Building
SPSS
Minitab
SAS
Excel
Fertility: Average number of kids.
Infant mortality: deaths per 1000 live births

11. SPSS
SAS
Minitab
Excel
Bar Charts

12. How Easy to Use? SPSS and Minitab are relatively easy to use
SAS a bit more difficult to use but made easier via Enterprise Guide (EG)
Excel very easy to use!
In general most software are easy to use if you learn how to use them! Getting Started Guides are available for SPSS, Minitab, Excel and SAS.

13. Online Tutorial / Online Forum
Demonstrate the Getting Started Tutorials for all four packages via RAS or Common Desktop and ask for the views of audience
Which is the best?
Online Tutorial available in Help menu
Does the software has an active online forum? sasprofessionals.net; Assess (SPSS);

14. Help to Interpret Output
SPSS provide assistant to help you interpret some of the output via Case Studies
Minitab provide assistant too via StatGuide
SAS by examples (similar to Case Studies)
Excel
Demonstrate with example

15. Technical Support SPSS Good, but only via representative
Minitab Good, deals directly with anybody
SAS very Good, deals directly with anybody
Excel Good, deals directly with anybody
User Groups if available can be very useful

16. Statistics Wizard
SPSS has a statistics wizard that ask you some questions and then suggest what statistical test you can do (demonstrate). But it is best to be very clear about what you want!
SAS (via EG)
Minitab and Excel don’t

17. Design of Experiment
Very Important aspect of Statistics: helps you to set optimum conditions for your experiment. For example what temperature, catalyst and pressure are needed for maximum yield of a chemical reaction.
Not available in SPSS
Available in Minitab
Available in SAS
Not available in Excel

18. Prospective and Retrospective Power Analysis
Power Analysis helps you to make a decision on sample size / power
Only retrospective in SPSS
Both in SAS
Both in Minitab
Not available in Excel except maybe through an add-in module

19. Reading Data Files from other software
SPSS is okay
Minitab Good
SAS Good
Excel Very Good (most statistical software can read (open) an Excel file
The best way to store data is as flat file using Notepad (text).

20. Getting Output (tables and graphs) into other software
They are all good in this, particularly getting output into a Word document or PowerPoint presentation via Copy and Paste.
SPSS output file can be exported as html, pdf, rtf, doc
SAS output can be listing (local to SAS) or html (or pdf and rtf via EG)
Minitab output can be txt, html, pdf, rtf
Excel output can also be copied and paste in a variety of formats

21. Programming Language
SPSS, Minitab and SAS all have very powerful programming language. As you point-and-click a programme is being built behind the scene. Demonstrate
Excel also have a programming language e.g. Visual Basics (Anyone here used it before?)

22. Automatic Updating of Graphs and Tables after adding more data
SPSS does not have this function, you simple have to reproduced the output again! Syntax.
With Minitab, you can update the graph and table
SAS does not have this function
Excel has this function

23. New Releases
IBM SPSS Statistics produces new version too often, almost every year! Currently version 23 on campus, but 24 is out!
Minitab Ltd produces new releases just at the right pace, currently on version 17 on campus
SAS Institute Inc. produces new releases about every couple of years, latest version is /9.2/9.3 for SAS Base and 7 for SAS EG
Microsoft produces new releases about every couple of years, currently on Windows 10.

24. Usage In Industry Vs Academia
SPSS and Minitab heavily used in Academia, used in Industry but not a lot
SAS not heavily used in Academia, heavily used in Industry (most clinical trials use SAS)
Excel heavily used in both Academia and Industry

25. Operating Systems SPSS runs on Windows, Macintosh, and Unix
Minitab runs mainly on Windows and Macintosh (10Xtra last version on Mac)
SAS runs on Windows, Macintosh, Unix, Linux
Excel runs mainly on Windows and Macintosh

26. Pivot Tables
Very good for displaying information online. Can be very interactive
Minitab: static, not interactive
Excel: interactive
SPSS: interactive
SAS: interactive
Demonstrate if possible!

27. Text Analytics SPSS SAS Minitab Excel
SPSS Modeler (different from IBM SPSS Statistics)
SAS
SAS Enterprise Miner (different SAS Base and Enterprise Guide)
Minitab ??
Excel
With extension

28. Statistical Modelling
“A statistical model is a class of mathematical model, which embodies a set of assumptions concerning the generation of some sample data, and similar data from a larger population. A statistical model represents, often in considerably idealized form, the data-generating process”
There are three purposes for a statistical model:
Predictions
Extraction of information
Description of stochastic structures
Some common models:
Regression Model
Simple Linear Regression
Multiple Linear Regression
Logistics Regression (Binary and Multinomial)
Ordinal
Nonlinear
SAS, SPSS and Minitab are good for statistical modelling

29. Latin Squares Analysis
ANOVA
Product (Software)
One-Way
Two-Way
MANOVA
GLM
Post-hoc Tests
Latin Squares Analysis
Minitab
Yes R
SAS
  Yes
SPSS
Excel
Add on

30. Minitab Yes No SAS Yes Yes Excel SPSS Regression Product (Software)
OLS
WLS
2SLS
NLLS
Logistic
GLM
LAD
Stepwise
Minitab
Yes No R
SAS
Yes 
 Yes
Excel
SPSS
Ordinary Least Square (OLS); Weighted Least Square (WLS); Two Stage Least Square 2SLS;
Non-Linear Least Square NLLS); General Linear Model (GLM); Least Absolute Deviation regression (LAD)

31. Minitab Yes No SAS Yes Excel SPSS Time Series Analysis Product ARIMA
GARCH
Unit root test
Cointegration test
VAR
Multivariate GARCH
Minitab
Yes No R
SAS
  Yes
Excel
SPSS

32. Compare Groups for Significant Differences

33. Now Some Demonstrations
Most of these packages can open more than one file in a session
SPSS
Minitab
SAS
Excel

34. Big Data Analytics
IBM SPSS Modeler
SAS Enterprise Miner R

35. Text Mining Tools
Text Mining Tools Palette
Project Panel
Diagram Workspace showing Connected Nodes
Help Panel
Properties Panel

37. END You will use many different software depending on your needs!!!!
Questions

38. Summary DOE: Minitab or SAS
Power / Sample size calculation: Minitab or SAS
Best way to store your data: Notepad
Automatic Update of Output: Minitab or Excel
SAS very popular in industry
Pivot table: SAS, SPSS or Excel
Modelling: SAS, SPSS or Minitab
Summary statistics: SAS, SPSS or Minitab