Hi Frans,
Very impressive. It'll take a time to digest your work.
To me, a "little" difficulty rests: My data sav file contains about
45,000 cases and 21 variables, as I work with the European Social
Survey's last round (51,000 cases minus the cases with a response set
or missing data).
Nevertheless, your work merits numerous 🙂🙂🙂🙂
- ftr
On 30/09/2026 22:05, Frans Houweling wrote:
Hi ftr,
please take a look at
https://www.morewithdata.net/blog/20260930-Computing_the_Mahalanobis_distance.html
Any suggestions and criticisms appreciated.
frans
On 9/25/26 11:05, ftr wrote:
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
