September 2008 – AnnMaria's Blog

Dr. De Mars General Life Ramblings | statistics

Finding Groups in Data

ByAnnMaria De Mars September 26, 2008

Today, Dr. De Mars is — happy. One of the fun things about my job is that I get to do lots of different things. That can be a bit troubling some days, because statistical software consultant encompasses a wide range from different types of models, to coding, to various operating systems to all of…

Software

SPSS: Does not play well with others

ByAnnMaria De Mars September 26, 2008

SPSS does some pretty cool things, and I have written about some of them here. However, there are also some annoyances. First of all, it is one of the hardest packages to use moving datasets from one format or platform to another. The regular SPSS dataset, the one that ends in .sav crashes many mail…