Hi Bob,
I really appreciate your work as I am not a programmer but a social
scientist that uses stats to answer substantial questions. And I was
just "surprised" when I asked a newbie question in the R forum some
years ago. So SPSS for SPPS' sake, R for R's sake, is not my job.
Therefore I bought your book, too.
There are two other free programs that merit attention:
ViSta : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ViSta,_The_Visual_Statistics_system
Mondrian: http://www.theusrus.de/Mondrian/
Mondrian is a R GUI.
Tanagra: http://eric.univ-lyon2.fr/~ricco/tanagra/en/tanagra.html
TANAGRA is a free DATA MINING software for academic and research
purposes. It proposes several data mining methods from exploratory data
analysis, statistical learning, machine learning and databases area.
The advantage of Tanagra ist that its programmer as a data mining
teacher and as such he published a manuals for a large number of his
sub-programmes.
As for commercial side I don't see anything on the horizon for Jasp and
jamovi as they are both academic programmes.
Both have a real drawback: You can't create new variables from the
results of the procedures. So you get rapid and good looking results
from a PCA, for instance, but you can't save the dimensions. I asked for
this but it does not seem on their radar. This makes these programmes
less useful as it breaks the analysis and production process. They
solved the first problem of an analysis cycle, data input , but not the
last one, data output.
BTW, two other issues I would treat in a programme review is:
how easily treated are missing values ?
Missing values are a standard problem in real life, and already input
with MV varies from programme to programme. Does the programme do more
than list-wise or case-wise deletion, or does it already stall when
missing values appear ?
Is the program useful for categorical data analysis ? Very often the
statistical programmes are oriented towards the analysis of continuous
data (in biomedical, physics, engineering, ...) , but in social,
political or management sciences or in any survey analysis this is not
at the centre. For instance, multiple correspondence analysis is quite
seldom.
Regards,
ftr
On 29/11/2018 14:25, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
Hi ftr,
I'm aware of Jasp, but haven't decided if I'll review it yet. I still haven't
gotten the jamovi review into the extensive review format that I used to
standardize the other reviews. I hope to do that over the Christmas break. I'd
also like to look at R AnalyticFlow, which is more like SPSS Modeler than SPSS
Statistics: https://r.analyticflow.com/en/. That workflow interface has much to
recommend it, though reporting seems to be a weak point. I love the APA-style
tables in jamovi and BlueSky!
Jamovi was started by former Jasp developers. There's a very interesting
interview with Jonathan Love about those two packages here:
http://blog.efpsa.org/2017/03/23/introducing-jamovi-free-and-open-statistical-software-combining-ease-of-use-with-the-power-of-r/
.
I'm using the open source version of BlueSky, but I'll be surprised if there
aren't commercial angles to several of the others for people who want to be
able to pay for tech support.
With so many wonderful options, it's a great time to be using statistics &/or
machine learning. I think IBM/SPSS, SAS Institute, and Statacorp must be quaking in
their boots!
Cheer,
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: Pspp-users <pspp-users-bounces+muenchen=utk....@gnu.org> On Behalf Of ftr
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2018 6:23 PM
To: pspp-users@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Other Free SPSS Alternatives
Hi Bob,
Did you wrote about Jasp ?
Blue Sky Stats has an open source and a commercial version.
Regards,
-ftr
On 28/11/2018 15:13, Muenchen, Robert A (Bob) wrote:
Hi All,
I've been looking into open-source SPSS alternatives and have written
a set of reviews on them here:
http://r4stats.com/articles/software-reviews/
Several of them are adding features at a fast rate, so this should be
very interesting area to watch.
The one that has the most features at the moment is BlueSky Statistics:
http://r4stats.com/2018/10/01/bluesky-statistics-6-04-gui-for-r-update
/
Cheers,
Bob
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