Mike Thanks for the heads up ... perhaps predictive analytics translates to "inferential statistics." By the way, let me put my usual plug in for MINITAB .. it is economical (it used to be, anyway), the output is succinct and crisp, very powerful, and many stat books use their output as examples. Where I work people tend to use SPSS, but more out of habit I think, since they are doing mostly t tests and correlations and ANOVAs ...
-------------------------- John W. Kulig Professor of Psychology Plymouth State University Plymouth NH 03264 -------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> Cc: "Mike Palij" <m...@nyu.edu> Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 9:02:15 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [tips] IBM To Buy SPSS, er, PAWS, I Mean PASW For those of you who have used the statistical program previously known as SPSS and currently "re-branded" as Predictive Analytics Software or PASW (though referred to as some as PAWS), it has been announced that IBM has decided to buy SPSS/PAWS/PASW; see: http://www.reuters.com/article/businessNews/idUSTRE56R2EX20090728 If you thought your licensing fees were outrageous before, you ain't seen nothing yet. By the way, does anyone know what "Predictive Analytics" means? Does it have a serious meaning or is just biz-speak to make what one is talking about more obscure (e.g., "solutions" can mean almost anything that a company can charge for; "enterprise" means "business" though it does call to mind Captain Kirk for some; and we no longer have "problems", only "issues"). Damn, I should have bought SPSS when it was $35.09! ;-) -Mike Palij New York University m...@nyu.edu --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
