If anyone is interested in the results of this, I've put my paper online at http://www.kline.ca/jesse If you like it, please vote for the story on Slashdot ;-).
Jesse > On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 23:07 -0600, Jesse Kline wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-01-10 at 19:06 -0700, Johnny Stork wrote: > > > Spreadsheets are a good starting point since you can do your organizing > > > and data cleaning in a familiar interface. Once you collect, clean and > > > organize (grouping etc) your daya you can then export as CSV to import > > > into any stats package, or, you can do some basic stats in Excel (Open > > > Office Calc). I am also guessing you are only looking at doing some > > > descriptive stats (counts, means, variance, sd etc) and so these are > > > easoly done in Excel. You can also do many different basic means tests > > > (is this mean/average statistically larger than the other mean), in > > > Excel (T-Tests) > > > > In regards to working with OpenOffice.org Calc, I am unsure about how I > > would work with non-numerical values. For example, if I have one column > > that records User ID's and I want to categorize the number/percentage of > > users in various categories [ie. one-time posters (1 post), light > > posters (2-5 posts), all the way to heavy posters (80+ posts)] and then > > correlate this data with another column that records ideology of the > > posts, how would I go about doing this? > > > > Jesse > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
