Further to Marta's comment, see the most recent in a line of articles:
"Statistical Accuracy of Spreadsheet Software" by Kellie B. Keeling and
Robert J. Pavur, in The American Statistician, Volume 65, Number 4,
November 2011, pages 265-273.
Tony Babinec
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Marta García-Granero
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 9:43 AM
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Subject: Re: best way to learn using SPSS
El 24/02/2012 5:33, ashfaque escribió:
> i am affiliated with the field of monitoring and evaluation, i feel it
> is very much necessary to learn it due to in most of the job ads this
> skill is required, i have seen couple of courses on net here in
> Pakistan but their fee cost is too much high.is there any other source
> for learning it, i am working on education project at the moment.
>
> may i know benefits of learning it as compared to other software
> packages like of excel and access?
I would consider neither Excel nor Access to be one the "statistical
packages". The Data Analysis pack that comes with Excel is trash. The native
statistical distributions functions built in Excel are quite inaccurate. If
you are willing to replace then by Ian Smiths' VBA functions then you can
try to use Excel for very simple tasks (and you should not even trust the
STDDEV function, BTW). Excel is cheaper than SPSS, agreed, but Excel is not
an statistical package, while SPSS is not a spreadsheet.
Regards,
Marta
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