I'm just asking, does the teaching of statistics with a package other than SPSS mean that we don't believe our graduate students (or undergraduate students who are good enough to get the kind of positions that will require them to crunch numbers) are not capable of using another package? Believe me, I know that several of my students have had to learn packages other than SPSS, some of them home brewed by their employers. Is there an appropriate time to stop learning new things?
Marie Helweg-Larsen wrote: > >John et al >Do any of you know how widely MINITAB is used in graduate school? It seems >important to teach students software packages that they will use/encounter/be >expected to know in graduate school. I've only ever encountered SAS and SPSS >in grad programs. >Marie > >PS. This is what it says (among other things) on the minitab website >(http://www.minitab.com/en-US/academic/) but no info on grad school usage: >+Powerful, but easy to use >+Comprehensive—no separate modules to buy >+Prepares K-12 students for AP Statistics >+Widely used in business and industry . Robert W. Wildblood, PhD Riverside Counseling Center and Adjunct Psychology Faculty @ Germanna Community College drb...@rcn.com --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1998 or send a blank email to leave-1998-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
