On Thu, Sep 01, 2011 at 12:02:01PM -0500, [email protected] wrote: Hello, I'm a PSPP newby and will be giving a demo of PSPP to a group of experienced SPSS users soon. I understand that many features that are envisioned for PSPP have not been implemented yet, but what are some features that people view as enhancements over SPSS within in PSPP that you as a user like? Urban Landreman As no one else has replied to this, I'll give it a go.
A number of people have said they prefer the way PSPP presents the options for text data importing. Multi-platform portability is also something people have commented on - is there a (modern) version of SPSS that'll run on BSD for example? A few people are using, or have used the Postgres import feature, which so far as I'm aware cannot be done with SPSS except through ODBC, which looses some of the meta-data. Cost, of course, is probably the most often cited advantage. Not to mention, that : * In contrast to SPSS, PSPP allows (and encourages) its implementation of the stastistics to be independently reviewed for accuracy, numerical stability, and rigour; * PSPP's licence lasts forever, compared to SPSS's 6 months; * PSPP's licence permits you to make unlimited copies. SPSS allows a single copy only; * If something is found to be lacking from PSPP, a user is welcome to improve upon it, either by doing the work themselves or by contracting another to do it for them. It's then possible, but not required, to contribute those improvements back to the community. The Perl interface is an example of an enhancement which arose this way; J' -- PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://pgp.mit.edu or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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