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Use of Commercial and Free Software for Teaching Statistics
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Stemock, Bryson; Kerns, Lucy – Statistics Education Research Journal, 2019
This study investigates the effectiveness of two statistical software packages, the commercial software, SPSS, and the free software, R Version 3.5.0, in teaching statistics, by comparing grades earned by students in an introductory statistics course. Students taught using R earned slightly higher grades overall than those in the SPSS class,…
Descriptors: Statistics, Teaching Methods, Computer Software, Open Educational Resources