I also hesitated due to the owners, but wanted to see if it is
technically feasible. It is. For the rest I have a working brain.
I'll try Perplexity. My questions concerned PSPP only.
Are there other AI that were tried here in the group ?
- ftr
Le 16/06/2025 à 20:56, Matthias Faeth a écrit :
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.
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