Minitab AlternativesOnly Free apps categorised as Statistical Analyzers

The best free Statistical Analyzer alternative to Minitab is R (programming language), which is also Open Source. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Minitab and 15 are free Statistical Analyzers so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting free Statistical Analyzer alternatives to Minitab are PSPP, JASP, jamovi and NumeRe.

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  1. R (programming language) icon

    R (programming language)

     224 likes

    R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment which was developed at Bell Laboratories (formerly AT&T, now Lucent Technologies) by John Chambers and colleagues. R can be consider.

    99 R (programming language) alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
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    R (programming language) vs Minitab Comments
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    5

    For R an extension (library) "R commander" exists, which brings a GUI to perform most things that Minitab is capable of...

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    4

    R is a programming language, even if somewhat specialized. Minitab is an application which makes statistical analysis easy. In R, you write code, in Minitab you click around and choose various graphs and stats to be calculated. Sure, Minitab does have some scripting capability, but so does Excel...

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
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    Cost, functionality. There are an amazing amount of packages available to implement different analyses, the amount of support and documentation is incredible. Then the ability to create GUIs using Shiny is great for distribution of your work to colleagues and associates to use.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    3 of 5 comments
    • R (programming language) is Free and Open SourceMinitab is Paid and Proprietary
    • R (programming language) is Customizable and LightweightMinitab is not according to our users
  2. PSPP icon

    PSPP

     50 likes

    PSPP is a free software application for analysis of sampled data. It has a graphical user interface and conventional command line interface. It is written in C, uses GNU Scientific Library for its mathematical routines, and plotutils for generating graphs.

    40 PSPP alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  4. JASP icon

    JASP

     33 likes

    JASP is a free and open-source graphical program for statistical analysis supported by the University of Amsterdam. It is designed to be easy to use, and familiar to users of SPSS. It offers standard analysis procedures in both their classical and Bayesian form.

    31 JASP alternatives

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    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Chrome OS
    • Flathub
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    The higher ranked alternatives are programming languages or environments, which is not what Minitab is.

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    • JASP is Free and Open SourceMinitab is Paid and Proprietary
    • JASP is LightweightMinitab is not according to our users
  5. jamovi icon

    jamovi

     15 likes

    jamovi is a free and open statistical platform which is intuitive to use, and can provide the latest developments in statistics.

    19 jamovi alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Flathub
    • Online
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  6. NumeRe icon

    NumeRe

     4 likes

    Open source framework for numerical computations and advanced statistical analysis, featuring nonlinear curve fitting, ODE solving, 1D/2D publication-quality visualization, Fourier and wavelet transforms, intuitive syntax, and namespace-based code organization for research.

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    • Windows
    Default view of a session in NumeRe with an exemplary plot. The GUI is available in German and English
     
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    Deducer

     10 likes

    Deducer is designed to be a free easy to use alternative to proprietary data analysis software such as SPSS, JMP, and Minitab. It has a menu system to do common data manipulation and analysis tasks, and an excel-like spreadsheet in which to view and edit data frames.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Xfce
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  9. RKWard icon

    RKWard

     17 likes

    RKWard is an easy to use, transparent frontend to the R programming language, a very powerful, yet hard-to-get-into scripting-language with a strong focus on statistic functions. RKWard tries to combine the power of the R-language with the ease of use of commercial statistical...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  10. SOFA Statistics icon

    SOFA Statistics

     20 likes

    SOFA Statistics is an open-source statistical package, with an emphasis on ease of use, learn as you go, and beautiful output. The name stands for Statistics Open For All. It has a graphical user interface and can connect directly to MySQL, SQLite, MS Access, and MS SQL Server.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    Choosing the right test made easy
     
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    WinBUGS

     3 likes

    WinBUGS is statistical software for Bayesian analysis using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. It is based on the BUGS (Bayesian inference Using Gibbs Sampling). It runs under Microsoft Windows, though it can also be run on Linux using Wine.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  12. gretl icon

    gretl

     11 likes

    Is a cross-platform software package for econometric analysis, written in the C programming language that can import SPSS data files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
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  13. CloudStat icon

    CloudStat

     2 likes

    CloudStat is the cloud environment for building statistical applications collaboratively.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Online
    Data Analysis in the Cloud with R language
     
  14. OpenStat icon

    OpenStat

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    OpenStat contains a large variety of parametric, nonparametric, multivariate, measurement, statistical process control, financial, and other procedures.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • Wine
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