RE: PSPP vs SPSS

2010-10-26 Thread Thambu David
thanks-can't follow portugese though Thambu Medicine 2 and CEU CMC Vellore 632004 From: Michel Boaventura [mic...@michelboaventura.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 8:41 PM To: Jason Stover Cc: Thambu David; pspp-users@gnu.org Subject: Re: PSPP vs SPSS

Re: PSPP vs SPSS

2010-10-26 Thread Matej Kovacic
Hi, >> Are there any teaching materials available that i can use to teach students >> PSPP? http://pspp.kiberpipa.org/wiki/doku.php Regards, Matej ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

RE: PSPP vs SPSS

2010-10-26 Thread Thambu David
thanks Thambu Medicine 2 and CEU CMC Vellore 632004 From: John Darrington [j...@darrington.wattle.id.au] Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:55 PM To: Thambu David Cc: pspp-users@gnu.org Subject: Re: PSPP vs SPSS On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:53:34PM +0530, Tha

Xtab with strings/compute question

2010-10-26 Thread Sierra Bravo
Dear all I'm trying to crosstabulate two string variables, and it seems to be instantly crashing the system. The syntax I'm using is the following: CROSSTABS /TABLES= Col1 Col2 BY Col44 /FORMAT=AVALUE LABELS TABLES PIVOT /STATISTICS=CHISQ /CELLS=COUNT ROW COLUMN

Re: status of UTF-8 support?

2010-10-26 Thread Rob Messer
John, Ok, we will try it with your latest changes and then reply back and let you know how it goes. Thanks much, Rob On Oct 26, 2010, at 8:46 AM, John Darrington wrote: > On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:40:29AM +, John Darrington wrote: > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:51:56PM -0700, Ben Pfaff

Re: PSPP vs SPSS

2010-10-26 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:53:34PM +0530, Thambu David wrote: Can we use PSPP (0.75) as an alternative to SPSS in a teaching university-ie-is it acceptable in journal publications as a recognized software? I have published a paper reporting results which were generated by PSPP (and noted i

Re: status of UTF-8 support?

2010-10-26 Thread John Darrington
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 10:40:29AM +, John Darrington wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:51:56PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: Rob Messer writes: > What is the current status of support for including UTF-8 characters > in PSPP output? My company is using

Re: PSPP vs SPSS

2010-10-26 Thread Michel Boaventura
About the docs, there is a very introdutory tutorial, but in Portuguese only. So far I didn't have the time to translate it: wiki.michelboaventura.com ___ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users

Re: PSPP vs SPSS

2010-10-26 Thread Jason Stover
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:53:34PM +0530, Thambu David wrote: > Dear John/ Any PSS user > Can we use PSPP (0.75) as an alternative to SPSS in a teaching > university-ie-is it acceptable in journal publications as a recognized > software? That is partly a question for the journal's editor, but I

Re: status of UTF-8 support?

2010-10-26 Thread John Darrington
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 07:51:56PM -0700, Ben Pfaff wrote: Rob Messer writes: > What is the current status of support for including UTF-8 characters > in PSPP output? My company is using the Perl interface to import > survey data into PSPP, and generally it works very we

PSPP vs SPSS

2010-10-26 Thread Thambu David
Dear John/ Any PSS user Can we use PSPP (0.75) as an alternative to SPSS in a teaching university-ie-is it acceptable in journal publications as a recognized software? Are there any teaching materials available that i can use to teach students PSPP? I find R as an alternative but is too complex f