Hello,
To me, the weak point is the influence statistics. How do you calculate
Mahalanobis statistics with PSPP? Or do I miss something ?
- ftr
On 24/09/2026 21:17, Sofía Aritz wrote:
Hello everyone,
I am currently studying a Bachelor programme in Social Sciences at the
VUB/UGent and one of the courses requires the use of SPSS [1]. Would
it feasible to use PSPP instead for such an introductory course? A
part of the exam for this course is to use SPSS, as such, are the
skills transferable?
The course outline specifies the following points:
- T-test for the difference between two means.
- One-way ANOVA
- Bivariate regression (basics, residuals and influence statistics,
inferential statistics).
- Multiple regression (basics, redundancy/suppression, inferential
statistics and assumptions, categorical independent variables,
F-tests, and interaction effects).
As I do not have much knowledge on statistic software (or statistics
in general), I would deeply appreciate any thoughts and insights on
this matter. Thank you in advance.
Kind regards,
Sofía Aritz
[1] Quantitative Research Methods. (warning, unfree GTM JavaScript)
https://caliweb.vub.be/?page=course-offer&id=009943&anchor=1&target=pr&year=2627&language=nl&output=html
