FINALLY got a few minutes to download the latest version. For some reason the download I received was for the planned installation as opposed to the basic installation. In 25 words or less, basic installation is for stand-alone installs on a single machine, which we have hundreds of users doing. The planned installation would be…
All right, well maybe they are not that secret, but there are some really great resources out there that you may want to check out. If you didn’t get to the SPSS Higher Education Road Show at UCLA because rush hour in Los Angeles is from 7-9, 4-6 and any time you are on the…
Since I have written about odds ratios and logs lately, I was going to write about the natural log of the odds ratio, however, random events have caused me to do otherwise. I read an interesting blog by Adam Jackson lately, in which he is concerned that robots will take over the world. At the…
Yes, I am the F-word – a feminist. I was at a faculty meeting this weekend and one of the presenters began by saying, pointing to a colleague in the audience, “I am sure Dr. Y knows more about this than me.” Several times in her presentation on analysis of assessment data she would pause…
It was 85 degrees in soCal today. Just thought I would rub that in for the benefit of my former and present colleagues in the frozen north. The advantage of having a blog as opposed to doing an on-line course is that I can just randomly switch subjects, which in my office is referred to…
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…
If you haven’t checked out the site 43thing.coms website, you really should. You can post up to 43 things that you want to do and then add updates as you make progress on your things. As no good idea should ever go uncopied, I decided to write a couple of posts on cool things about…
Every now and then I post a mistake I made using either statistical software or statistics. Students often get discouraged feeling they make so many mistakes and they will never get it all right. No one gets it all right all the time. Obvious mistake of the day …. I was making minor cosmetic changes…
I have been asked several times by students in my classes if I would consider writing a blog on statistics and statistical programming. Apparently, blogs are “in” with people younger than me, as witness daughter #2 at left who has just informed me that people do not use the term “in” any more. Whatever. Giving…
…. and I mean poor not in the Biblical sense of poor in spirit but in the Financial Reserve sense of not having money in your checking account. There are so many kinds of software now that it is hard to choose what you absolutely have to have. First on my list of software the…