Products Comparison

Our software is packaged with a variety of statistical and graphical tools to meet your educational needs. Instructors and students can use either the professional version of Minitab 18 or Minitab Express, our introductory statistics software for Mac and PC. Compare features to find the right product for success in your classes and research.

Graphs	Minitab 18	Minitab Express 1.5
Scatterplot	check	check
Matrix Plot	check
Bubble Plot	check
Marginal Plot	check
Histogram	check	check
Dotplot	check	check
Stem-and-Leaf	check	check
Probability Plot	check	check
Empirical CDF	check
Probability Distribution Plot	check	check
Boxplot	check	check
Interval Plot	check	Can add intervals to Individual Value Plot
Individual Value Plot	check	check
Line Plot	check
Bar Chart	check	check
Pie Chart	check	check
Time Series Plot	check	check
Area Graph	check
Contour Plot	check
3D Scatterplot	check
3D Surface Plot	check

Statistical Tools	Minitab 18	Minitab Express 1.5
Basic Statistics	check	Excludes Graphical Summary, Poisson Rate Tests, Outlier Test, Poisson Goodness-of-Fit
Resampling		check
Regression	check	Includes Regression, Stepwise, Best Subsets, Binary Logistic Regression
ANOVA	check	Includes One-Way, Two-Way, Equal Variances Test, Main Effects, Interaction and Factorial Plots
DOE	check
Control Charts	check	Includes Xbar, Xbar-R, Xbar-S, Individuals, I-MR, P, U
Quality Tools	check
Reliability/Survival	check
Multivariate	check
Time Series	check	Includes Trend Analysis, Moving Average, Exponential Smoothing, Difference, Lag
Tables	check	Excludes Descriptive Statistics
Nonparametrics	check	check
Equivalence Tests	check
Power and Sample Size	check
Assistant Menu	check

Technical Details	Minitab 18	Minitab Express 1.5
Operating System	PC	Mac and PC
Worksheet Size	4,000 columns with rows limited only by available RAM (first 10,000,000 rows displayed)	100 columns and 10,000 rows
Number of Worksheets	Unlimited	1 maximum
Language	English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish	English
Data types	Numeric, text, date/time	Numeric, text
Data import types	MPJ, MTW, XLS, XLSX, XML, TXT, CSV, DAT, ODBC	MPJX, (import data embedded within) MPJ, MTW, CSV, XLSX