On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 08:04:49AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
Rodolfo Martinez <[email protected]> writes:
> My name is Rodolfo Martinez and I am the Executive Director of Ontario
> Immigrant Network. We are a non-profit dedicated to grass roots research
on
> immigrant integration issues. We are currently carrying out a large
research
> project which will require a large amount of statistical analysis.?? When
> originally planning out our budget, we factored in the cost of SPSS.??
> However, my background with using GNU/Linux over the years led me to
think of
> open-source equivalents for some of the software that we use.
>
> Obviously, this has brought me to you. So far, it seems that PSPP would
suit
> us perfectly. Over the next year, I would like to run a comparison of how
> PSPP stacks up vs SPSS in our "real world" applications to see if we
could
> maybe share this with other non-profits doing similar projects.?? I was
> wondering if from time to time someone from your organization may be
> interested in offering help/pointers, and if you would be interested in
our
> findings at the end of our year long project.
I don't see any other replies to this, so I'll give it a go. As
you run into problems, please feel free to consult the PSPP
mailing lists for help and pointers. I am interested in the
findings.
I too would be interested. You say that you will be doing a large amount of statistical analysis. Do you anticipate that you will be performing analyses on large datasets? or just a lot of analyses on smaller data sets? PSPP should be able to efficiently cope with large data sets, but you have to make a few preparations first. Also bear in mind that not all of the analyses have menu options, so if you don't see what you need, consult the manual (or ask on [email protected]). 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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