Trends and usage pattern of SPSS and Minitab Software in Scientific research

Abstract

Most scientific research generates data. Analysis of the data from scientific research helps create new knowledge or a deep understanding of natural phenomena. Statistical software is used mainly in data analysis. SPSS and Minitab appear to be most popular, especially for those that could neither code nor mathematical inclined to handle advanced software such as R, MATLAB, Maple, etc. Trends and usage pattern of SPSS and Minitab Software in Scientific research was studied in this paper with the data obtained from the Scopus database. In their abstracts or keywords, documents that have mentioned SPSS were extracted for the years 2010 to 2019. Frequency analysis showed that the trend of using SPSS and Minitab is steadily increasing, although the use of Minitab is a fraction of SPSS. Minitab is mostly used in engineering, materials science, and computer science, while SPSS is mainly used in medicine, social science, and engineering. Analysis of the document type showed that SPSS and Minitab are mostly stated in abstracts or keywords of research articles, conference papers, review papers, and books indexed in Scopus.