Question 1

According to the text, what is one of the most important things to remember when buying a statistics software package?

Accepted Answer

A) buy direct from the manufacturer 
B) try before you buy 
C) always buy shareware 
D) share software packages with friends 
A) buy direct from the manufacturer 
B) try before you buy 
C) always buy shareware 
D) share software packages with friends B

Question 2

Self-prompting dialog boxes and the ability to use macros to automate tasks are features of _______.

Accepted Answer

A) SPSS 
B) STATISTICA 
C) Minitab 
D) R 
A) SPSS 
B) STATISTICA 
C) Minitab 
D) R B

Question 3

Which of the following is free and works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix platforms but takes a while to get used to because the learning curve tends to be a bit steep?

Accepted Answer

A) R 
B) Minitab 
C) StatCrunch 
D) SPSS 
A) R 
B) Minitab 
C) StatCrunch 
D) SPSS A

Question 4

According to the text, which of the following is the most popular statistical software package?

Accepted Answer

A) STATISTICA 
B) Minitab 
C) JMP 
D) SPSS 
A) STATISTICA 
B) Minitab 
C) JMP 
D) SPSS

Question 5

PSPP is an open-source variant of SPSS.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 6

Which of the following is billed as "statistical discovery software" that produces graphics with each statistical procedure?

Accepted Answer

A) SPSS 
B) JMP 
C) R 
D) Minitab 
A) SPSS 
B) JMP 
C) R 
D) Minitab

Question 7

Which of the following statistical software packages is free?

Accepted Answer

A) PSPP 
B) Minitab 
C) SPSS 
D) JMP 
A) PSPP 
B) Minitab 
C) SPSS 
D) JMP

Question 8

Almost all big statistics packages do the same things.However, they are different in the ways they do them.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

Question 9

Minitab contains utilities that include ReportPad, which is a report generator.

Accepted Answer

A) True 
 B)False

According to the text, what is one of the most important things to remember when buying a statistics software package?

Self-prompting dialog boxes and the ability to use macros to automate tasks are features of _______.

Which of the following is free and works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix platforms but takes a while to get used to because the learning curve tends to be a bit steep?

According to the text, which of the following is the most popular statistical software package?

PSPP is an open-source variant of SPSS.

Which of the following is billed as "statistical discovery software" that produces graphics with each statistical procedure?

Which of the following statistical software packages is free?

Almost all big statistics packages do the same things.However, they are different in the ways they do them.

Minitab contains utilities that include ReportPad, which is a report generator.

Statistics or Sadistics Its up to You

Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages

Vive La Différence: Understanding Variability

A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words

Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients

Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity

Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions

Are Your Curves Normal Probability and Why It Counts

Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me

Only the Lonely: The One Sample Z-Test

Tea for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups

Tea for Two Again: Tests Between the Means of Related Groups

Two Groups Too Many Try Analysis of Variance

Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variancea Brief Introduction

Cousins or Just Good Friends Testing Relationships Using Correlation Coefficient

Predicting Wholl Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression

What to Do When Youre Not Normal: CHI-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests

Some Other Important Statistical Procedures You Should Know About

Data Mining: An Introduction to Getting the Most Out of Your Big Data

The Ten or More Best and Most Fun Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff

The Ten Commandments of Data Collection

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Exam 20: A Statistical Software Sampler

According to the text, what is one of the most important things to remember when buying a statistics software package?

Self-prompting dialog boxes and the ability to use macros to automate tasks are features of _______.

Which of the following is free and works on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Unix platforms but takes a while to get used to because the learning curve tends to be a bit steep?

According to the text, which of the following is the most popular statistical software package?

PSPP is an open-source variant of SPSS.

Which of the following is billed as "statistical discovery software" that produces graphics with each statistical procedure?

Which of the following statistical software packages is free?

Almost all big statistics packages do the same things.However, they are different in the ways they do them.

Minitab contains utilities that include ReportPad, which is a report generator.

Statistics or Sadistics Its up to You

Means to an End: Computing and Understanding Averages

Vive La Différence: Understanding Variability

A Picture Really Is Worth a Thousand Words

Ice Cream and Crime: Computing Correlation Coefficients

Just the Truth: An Introduction to Understanding Reliability and Validity

Hypotheticals and You: Testing Your Questions

Are Your Curves Normal Probability and Why It Counts

Significantly Significant: What It Means for You and Me

Only the Lonely: The One Sample Z-Test

Tea for Two: Tests Between the Means of Different Groups

Tea for Two Again: Tests Between the Means of Related Groups

Two Groups Too Many Try Analysis of Variance

Two Too Many Factors: Factorial Analysis of Variancea Brief Introduction

Cousins or Just Good Friends Testing Relationships Using Correlation Coefficient

Predicting Wholl Win the Super Bowl: Using Linear Regression

What to Do When Youre Not Normal: CHI-Square and Some Other Nonparametric Tests

Some Other Important Statistical Procedures You Should Know About

Data Mining: An Introduction to Getting the Most Out of Your Big Data

The Ten or More Best and Most Fun Internet Sites for Statistics Stuff

The Ten Commandments of Data Collection

Filters