Is there any reason why I shouldn't use Excel's built-in ANOVA (statistical calculation) feature?

Somebody suggested I use SPSS, SAS, or Matlab to compute a single factor ANOVA for a computer science paper. I found that Excel can do the same thing, but much more simply. If Excel does what I want, is there some other reason I should be using one of the other tools?

Asked by Mister_Moderate 51 months ago Similar questions: reason Excel's built in ANOVA statistical calculation feature Science > Math.

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Nope. No reason. When dealing with statistical analysis, a lot of people are trained in SPSS (or SAS or Matlab), so they view using it as easier.

Excel's works fine and does fine. There's no real reason not to use it if it is what you are comfortable with.

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Just make sure that you meet all the assumptions There is nothing inherently wrong with most standard statistical packages, including the ones built into Excel. The only danger is that the user must make sure that they understand what the tests actually are, and what the assumptions are that go into the tests. There are many tests that accept fairly standard input (or just require you to put the data into a spreadsheet), but there are inherent assumptions in all statistical tests, and you will get garbage (that looks impressive) if you don't meet the assumptions.In that case, your results will be incorrect, but you will have no way to know that.

Before you run any statistical tests using any software package, make sure to do some reading to determine whether your data really meets the necessary assumptions, and whether the test is really doing what you need it to do. If so, there is no reason not to use the package..

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