Great news thanks. I found that Perplexity helps a lot while programming (in my case Excel VBA). Better than Gemini. I try to avoid ChatGPT, Llama, Grok and the likes due to their deeply unsympathetic owners (Sam Altmann / Marc Zuckerberg / Elon Musk)
Am Mo., 16. Juni 2025 um 11:18 Uhr schrieb ft gmail <public....@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > I just tried ChatGpt for creating PSPP syntax to see if it can create > simple syntax and does not create hallucinations. > > My question was basic: > syntax pspp for a ctables procedure, with SocialTrust as a dependent scale > variable and country and education as independent variables. > > The result seems reasonable, but my question was also quite basic. It > seems that AI might at least be a learning tool to find your way through > the large manual (Thank you, Ben, for the manual !). For getting reasonable > results, ChatGpt obliges you to ask clear questions, and this intellectual > discipline is perhaps the most important result of its use. > - ftr > > And the result produced by ChatGpt was: > > Given that *SocialTrust* is a *scale (continuous) dependent variable* and > you want to examine it across the categories of *country* and *education*, > the correct PSPP syntax using the *CTABLES* procedure to display > descriptive statistics (e.g., *mean*) is as follows: > CTABLES > /TABLE country [C] BY education [C] > /SUMMARY VARIABLES=SocialTrust > STATISTICS=MEAN STDDEV MIN MAX N > FORMAT=DEFAULT. > 🔍 Explanation: > > - > > /TABLE country [C] BY education [C]: Treats both country and education > as *categorical* grouping variables. > - > > /SUMMARY VARIABLES=SocialTrust: Specifies that SocialTrust is the > *dependent > scale variable*. > - > > STATISTICS=MEAN STDDEV MIN MAX N: Requests summary statistics — *mean*, > *standard deviation*, *minimum*, *maximum*, and *count (N)*. > - > > FORMAT=DEFAULT: Uses the default format for table output. > > Optional: For cleaner output (only means): > > CTABLES > /TABLE country [C] BY education [C] > /SUMMARY VARIABLES=SocialTrust > STATISTICS=MEAN. > > ------------------------------ > >
