[dundee] PSPP - an open source replacement for SPSS

Rick Moynihan rick.moynihan at gmail.com
Wed Sep 22 17:49:32 UTC 2010


R is another biggy for those wishing to crunch some stats...  Though
incanter is my preference:

http://incanter.org/

http://www.r-project.org/

R.

On 21 September 2010 17:17, Paul Lancaster
<paul_lancaster at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> and for some serious cmd line how about Octave
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
>
> that should crunch the hell outa a few numbers
>
> Paul
>
> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 08:44 +0100, Robert Ladyman wrote:
>> Well now, those are two excellent links - found 'Simon' for voice recognition
>> on the Open Source Replacements page (we've been looking for something for
>> audit reports for a while) and PSPP will be useful when talking to clients
>> about statistical analysis for grown-ups (rather than home-made Excel or
>> OpenOffice spreadsheets).
>>
>> RJL
>>
>>
>> > I said to Robert that I would post a link to him about an open source
>> > replacement to SPSS, a proprietary statistical package, at SFD 2010. Robert
>> > you will find an OpenSuSE rpm for PSPP on the "Get PSPP" page where there
>> >  is a link to D.Steur's OpenSuSE repository.
>> >
>> > http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/
>> >
>> > Continuing with the SFD theme here is an article on 58 open source
>> > replacements for proprietary software.
>> >
>> > http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/osrc/article.php/3904271/58-Open-Source-Re
>> > placements-for-Commercial-Communications-App
>> >
>> > Gordon
>> >
>>
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