Help help, Spss and stats

Category: Geeks r Us

Post 1 by Nem (I just keep on posting!) on Thursday, 07-Feb-2008 5:39:24

Does anyone know anything about excell? I need to know if I can use it instead of SPSS. I can't remember what SPSS stands for, but I can tell you that it deals with statistical information. It can make charts, graphs, compute frequencies and the such. Anyway, if any of you had to take a stats class what did you do?

Post 2 by SingerOfSongs (Heresy and apostasy is how progress is made.) on Thursday, 07-Feb-2008 10:19:49

Well I know the college I used to be at did all their stats class in excel, so it can do what you need it to. Not sure if that's enough help for you.

Post 3 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Thursday, 07-Feb-2008 12:32:36

Nem, Excel is good at a lot of things, but there are certain compplex statistical things it cannot do well, or at all.
lternatives to Excel would be R (freeware, it seems fairly accessible), Mat Lab (was accessible when Iused it but it's been a while) or may be you can track down a programme called Gauss, used it in university with good success.
I need to do some statistics studying myself so I will be looking at options.
I suspect Excel can do at least 90% of what you need it to do, but I will message you on the Zone when I've done more looking into what other programis most accessible.
Good luck.
-B

Post 4 by dissonance (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Tuesday, 11-Jan-2011 0:56:46

Hey. I'm reviving this topic because I'm running into the same issue. Does anyone have experience with spss and screen-readers? If so, is it doable, or would you suggest I look into alternative graphing methods such as xl?

Post 5 by moonspun (This site is so "educational") on Thursday, 13-Jan-2011 11:22:01

Look into the alternatives. I tried SPSS for my thesis and it was totally unusable.

Post 6 by kinky blinky :) (telling it like it is) on Tuesday, 25-Jan-2011 18:18:06

Cn you tell us what access technology you use? I believe older versions of SPSS were scripted to work with jaws. if so, might be able to obtain the sets as I work alongside one of the guys who did it for RNIB.

Best
Jack G

Post 7 by wildebrew (We promised the world we'd tame it, what were we hoping for?) on Tuesday, 25-Jan-2011 20:21:13

I believe SPSS was accessible up to, and include, version 15, when they switched over the the dratted Java.
After that, they are not really accessible to be useful, even with the Java Access Bridge installed.
Write to them and complain, and try to obtain a version prior to 15 and associated scripts, don't see why they should not still run.