Dear fellows, Sincerely, I am a bit disappointed with PSPP. After some struggle, I finally succeeded to make it install and work. Its features, however, are miles of distance of the inspirational SPSS. Although PSPP has a similar interface and a similar way to select variables, only the most basic statistics is already implemented, like ANOVA and t test. It not only lacks more difficult implementations such as the nice discriminant analysis that SPSS has, but also simple non-parametric tests are still missing.
I am aware it is free and a voluntary project, so I congratulate the initiative and I am not blaming the developers. I hope success for this necessary project. On the other hand, much simpler statistical packages have a minimal number of resources greater than PSPP. A lot of additional effort is still necessary to rise PSPP to the level it can be called a SPSS alternative. I am not a developer, nor a profound statistics expert, thus I am in a quest to find an statistics package for my work under linux. I only know R, which seems very hard to use. Do you have idea of others? Paulo. On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 09:40 +0100, Matej Kovacic wrote: > Hi, > > I sent test datasets and screenscoots to de developers list. > > > However - if a create a delimited TXT file with Gedit on Linux and > import it into PSPP, everything works just fine. > > So it is really a problem of no having an option to manually select > default encoding of the dataset. > > bye, Matej > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > Pspp-users@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > -- ---------------- Paulo Sergio Panse Silveira, MD, PhD Professor Livre-Docente Associate Professor Informatica Medica Medical Informatics Faculdade de Medicina School of Medicine at the Universidade de Sao Paulo University of Sao Paulo SP, Brasil SP, Brazil ---------------- _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
