The strange thing about Minitab is that it?s so specialised and powerful you might not get a lot out of it unless you really understand analytics and work with them often. Having said that there?s no harm in using the free trial to get to grips with the software. Technical support come...
Lock and Goldstein (1993) compare student versions of five statistical packages including Minitab and SPSS. However, these versions are not the PC versions of either package. It should be noted that the Minitab PC version offers students a free one month download and the SPSS PC version also...