Pspp

PSPP is a free software application for anaysis of samples data. It has a graphical user interface and conventional command line interface. It is written in C, uses GNU Scientific Library for its mathematical routines, and plotutils for generating graphs. It is intended as a free replacement of the proprietary program, SPSS.

Pspp includes the possibility to import Excel, Gnumeric, Postgres databases, OpenDocument Spreadsheet, Comma Separated Values, and ASCII files. It can export files in the spss \'portable\' and \'system\' file formats, and to ASCII files. It can perform T-tests, ANOVA, linear regression and a variety of other statistical operations. It also has extensive facilities for recoding, rearranging and manipulating data.

In the book "SPSS For Dummies", the author discusses PSPP under the heading of "Ten Useful Things You Can Find on the Internet" Facsimile of Book Index. In 2006, the South African Statistical Association presented a conference which included an analysis of how PSPP can be used as a free replacement to SPSS SASTAT conference programme.

History

• 0.4.0.1 August 2007
• 0.4.0 August 2005
• 0.3.0 April 2004
• 0.2.4 January 2000
• 0.1 August 1998

In earlier releases, the project was called "Fiasco".

References

See also

• Comparison of statistical packages

External links

Official resources

• Homepage
• PSPP project page at Savannah

Third-party resources

• Review by UK SPSS user group
• User tutorial from Toulouse University Computing Center (in French)
• Using PSPP to import SPSS data into R

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