Re: new ideas for how to contribute to PSPP - testing, statistical answers

[Harry Thijssen]

Hi Gene

I see. Well this kind of knowledge is needed too off-course. But indeed I don't see these questions often on the list. Anyway I would love to see people answering questions so the developers don't have to spend there time on this.

Have fun

2010/8/4 Gene Shackman

Well, I guess I meant  I could answer questions like "if I want to test the difference in means between two groups, what statistical test would I use."

I read the example you sent but that seems more like a question of how to write a program or interpret a coding error report. I wouldn't know how to do that. I don't actually use pspp very much at the moment. I'm not doing any statistics right now.  If I do need to do some, I'll try pspp again.

Sorry.

Gene

--- On Tue, 8/3/10, Harry Thijssen  wrote:

Hi Gene

At the moment there are not lots of statistical questions, but some are posted in the user-list. (Like this one
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2010-08/msg00008.html)
You read this list too? At the moment the developers answer these questions but in my opinion a mature community could take this task from the developers. It would be great if you can do so.

Have fun


> Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 15:11:39 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Gene Shackman <address@hidden>
> Subject: Fw: new ideas for how to contribute to PSPP - testing,
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> I saw the posting on how to contribute. I think I can test some statistical functionality of pspp, and I'm eager to see more functionality. I may also be able to answer some statistical questions, but I haven't seen those yet on the list, mostly questions about how to install, how to import, stuff like that.
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