Systat provides a free version of its program for student use
called Mystat. You can see a list of analyses provided in Mystat
and download it at http://www.systat.com.
Systat was a competitor to SPSS for many years and then SPSS
acquired the company. A lot of the SPSS user interface was taken
from Systat. SPSS sold Systat a few years back and now it seems
the company is back on track.
I am not worried about the issue of "software they won't see
again." The user interfaces on the major commercial packages
(such as Minitab, SPSS, Systat, etc.) are very similar. I used
Minitab for the first time a couple of years ago. It took me
about 30 sec to figure out how to do some standard analyses.
Ken
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Kenneth M. Steele, Ph.D. [email protected]
Professor and Assistant Chairperson
Department of Psychology http://www.psych.appstate.edu
Appalachian State University
Boone, NC 28608
USA
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Marc Carter wrote:
But it's increasingly a battle in our cash-strapped little U.
SPSS is expensive, especially when I have to buy separate
packages for advanced regression and advanced stats
(repeated-measures analyses, etc.). And it's increasingly
aimed at business data analysis (and now that IBM has bought
it, I expect that trend to accelerate).
I'm on the edge of using something else because SPSS is
rapidly pricing itself out of the small-college market, but I
hate to make the students learn some software that they won't
see again.
Our program is small and has become a major that is virtually
a grad-school prep program -- so that's the main reason that
we have them learn to use SPSS.
m
-- Marc Carter, PhD Associate Professor and Chair Department
of Psychology College of Arts & Sciences Baker University --
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A couple of folks have commented on using SPSS in their
statistics courses, and that causes me to ask "what is the
rationale for using SPSS in undergraduate statistics when
the vast majority of our students will never again use SPSS
unless they are employed in a research situation at a
university or an agency that does a great deal of number
crunching as part of their research?"
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