pspp briefly reviewed

[evalgene]

Hi all

Thought folks might like to know, I have a couple of pages that briefly reviews free statistical software packages

http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/soft.html

One of them shows results for using data sets with no missing, and I've recently included pspp there

http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/comparing_freestaprograms.html

with a few comments, like problems in saving output.  But basically the results seem the same as other programs.

If anyone has any comments, please let me know, or if you can figure out some of the issues I mentioned, that would be great too.

thanks

Gene


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[John Darrington-3]

Thanks for doing that.


> PSPP does not yet have correlation.

Correlation was infact added just a few weeks ago.  But you're right.  It's not yet in any released version.



> When using PSPP, I had to create another dataset.  For some reason, it did not recognize the last variable, so I added a dummy at the end.

Can you give some more information about this:  What version of PSPP are you using?  What commands did you use to read the data?  Posting
a copy of your pspp.jnl file would help to throw some light on this.


J'


On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 08:37:45AM -0800, Gene Shackman wrote:
     Hi all
     
     Thought folks might like to know, I have a couple of pages that briefly reviews free statistical software packages
     
     http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/soft.html
     
     One of them shows results for using data sets with no missing, and I've recently included pspp there
     
     http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/comparing_freestaprograms.html
     
     with a few comments, like problems in saving output.? But basically the results seem the same as other programs.
     
     If anyone has any comments, please let me know, or if you can figure out some of the issues I mentioned, that would be great too.
     
     thanks
     
     Gene

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[evalgene]

Thanks for the reply.  I downloaded the more recent version of pspp and now it does read my data file with no problem.  So I updated the page of review

http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/comparing_freestaprograms.html

(and added a note about correlation as well)

Thanks!

Gene



--- On Sat, 11/7/09, John Darrington <john@...> wrote:

Thanks for doing that.


> PSPP does not yet have correlation.

Correlation was infact added just a few weeks ago.  But you're right.  It's not yet in any released version.



> When using PSPP, I had to create another dataset.  For some reason, it did not recognize the last variable, so I added a dummy at the end.

Can you give some more information about this:  What version of PSPP are you using?  What commands did you use to read the data?  Posting
a copy of your pspp.jnl file would help to throw some light on this.


J'

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