Re: PSPP should remove the scary, misleading message about "UNRELEASED TEST SOFTWARE! NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!"

2016-02-24 Thread Mark Hancock
Since this discussion is happening in an open forum through this mailing list, I thought I'd add my two cents. First, I agree that the message in the title bar should go. Not because of GNU or GPL guidelines (specifically), though. Really, I think the question "what other [software] has a message

Re: PSPP should remove the scary, misleading message about "UNRELEASED TEST SOFTWARE! NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!"

2016-02-24 Thread Mark Hancock
In reference to John's comments: First, you seem to have ignored my point about the title bar being the wrong place for this, so maybe in the same way that you're accusing people of not reading instructions, it seems from my perspective like you're not reading these emails carefully (though I'm su

Re: Warning on unreleased versions.

2016-02-29 Thread Mark Hancock
I still think a lot of this can be avoided through better and clearer messaging when downloading the software, but it is also a good idea to have a message like this in the output, one time. The suggested text had a few grammatical errors, though, so here are some fixes: This is a development

Re: Warning on unreleased versions.

2016-03-01 Thread Mark Hancock
I agree that this sounds less scary (and even just making it not ALL CAPS would go a long way). However, I maintain that the title bar is not the right way to warn people in an interface. Title bars are for application names and information like filenames. Currently, the titlebar looks as follows

Re: Warning on unreleased versions.

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Hancock
I've attached a screenshot of what I think is a much better solution (to change the website). I think this simple change would alleviate the need for any messages in the application (though still wouldn't object to "(unstable)" or "(development)" in the title bar, just not a long instructional mess

Re: Warning on unreleased versions.

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Hancock
I do have some understanding of the packager vs. developer situation, yes, but didn't know there was a known bug in 0.8.5 that is so serious in Windows, so the explanation is very appreciated. Just to be clear, I'm not actually advocating recommending 0.8.5 specifically (I thought that's what the

Re: PSPP is not a "linux first" community

2016-03-03 Thread Mark Hancock
n < j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 01:43:31AM -0500, Mark Hancock wrote: > > I know this is a Linux-first community, > > I am disappointed that you think this. It is a common misconception which > we have tried hard to dispell. > >

Re: problems with mac

2016-05-17 Thread Mark Hancock
Hi Julia, I also don't have a Mac to test things on, but it might help if you provided some more information about the process you followed. If you provide the info below, the list can probably better help you: 1. Did you already install MacPorts (instructions here: https://www.macports.org/insta

Re: getting the confidence interval

2018-10-12 Thread Mark Hancock
I unfortunately don't know enough about PSPP syntax to suggest how to do this, but a CI is *not* always associated with a hypothesis and can be calculated from just a mean and SD (and a cumulative distribution function, which is typically the normal one). Typically the formula is something like: m

Re: Confidence interval is mathematically equivalent to hypothesis test

2018-10-12 Thread Mark Hancock
u0, X normally distributed with unknown > population variance > > If mü0 is not contained in the confidence interval, the hypothesis test is > significant. > > Dr. Oliver Walter > > Am 12.10.2018 um 15:01 schrieb Mark Hancock: > > I unfortunately don't know enough a