1/28/2024 0 Comments Pspp stats![]() So, I was disappointed that PSPP is not a useful option for me. I was looking forward to working more in Linux, since I think knowledge of operating systems is like everything else – use it or lose it. If you just need to do your own study for a relatively simple project and are going to be entering your own data, or maybe entered it in Excel and saved it as a text file, then PSPP should work fine. The default formatting of the output is nothing to write home about, but you can select, copy and paste it into LibreWriter, which is handy. I did a multiple regression and it gave me everything I wanted, ANOVA table, R-square, Adjusted R-Square, beta-weights, t-values, etc. csv file and had no problem opening it in PSPP. I did finally download a file off of our server that was in Excel format, opened it in LibreCalc, saved as a. It is pretty easy to use for the limited set of statistics it does. I have worked with students who needed no more than a basic package for an introductory statistics class and they should be thrilled to have PSPP as a free alternative to buying yet one more thing in a semester. If I have to search around for a dataset for which a package can be used, it’s clear it’s not going to meet my needs. It has a lot of functions listed, I presume they all work. PSPP does do descriptive statistics, regression and one-way ANOVA. sav files I had were ones I was using for studies that did repeated measures ANOVA, cluster analysis or factor analysis. The reason I didn’t have one I was interested in using is that PSPP only does really basic statistics and all the. sav file but I did not have one on this machine that I was interested in using. Except it turns out that PSPP doesn’t import any types of files except text. Unfortunately, it turned out that when the population was under 1,000,000 that there was text data in that field.įine, I’ll just download it as an ACCESS file, the other option. No problem, I thought, I’ll just read it in and use a substring function to read the first seven characters of the field, which were the population. PSPP does not allow the option of moving a line using your mouse to designate where variables are split. The first file I downloaded was a text file on a survey of public libraries. ![]() (I think I may have said this to some boyfriends in college, but I digress). This is NOT to say that it isn’t a nice little package. STILL, I have to say that PSPP was a disappointment in a great many ways. ![]() I admit that I am hardly a typical user for statistical software, given that I had to go online to download a file with less than 7,000 records and less than 500 variables. PSPP is only a free Linux SPSS for those with basic needs
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