Question
Download Solution PDFWhich of the following statistical packages are used for data analysis?
(A) MS-Excel
(B) SPSS
(C) MS-Access
(D) Mendeley
(E) R
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Detailed Solution
Download Solution PDFThe correct answer (A), (B), (E) only:
Key Points
- Statistical package
- It is basically a collection of software routines with a common interface that has been designed to simplify the job of performing statistical analysis and related tasks such as data management.
- Microsoft Excel:
- Microsoft Excel was initially released for the Apple Mac in 1984.
- Microsoft Excel for Data Analysts is one of the top tools and its built-in Pivot Table is unarguably one of the best and most popular analytical tools one could ask for.
- SPSS
- Statistical Package for the Social Sciences also known as IBM SPSS Statistics is a software package used for the analysis of statistical data.
- SPSS was first developed in 1968
- R:
- R is a free statistical software package that is widely used across both human behavior research and other fields and is used for data analysis.
Additional Information
- Microsoft Access:
- Microsoft Access is a database management system (DBMS) from Microsoft that combines the relational Access Database Engine (ACE) with a graphical user interface and software-development tool
- Microsoft Access stores data in its own format based on the Access Database Engine (formerly Jet Database Engine).
- Mendeley
- It is a reference manager software founded in 2007 by Ph.D. students Paul Foeckler, Victor Henning, and Jan Reichelt and acquired by Elsevier in 2013.
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