RE: Multi response sets in PSPP

[Charles Johnson]

I agree with the suggestion. Baccalaureate courses, biostatistics and generally 
in the early years of social sciences, these tools are very useful.

I hope the developers can add to your to-do list, considering that they use 
their free time to this project.


CJT


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> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 10:06:14 -0700
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> Subject: Re: Multi response sets in PSPP
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> CTABLES is probably the most valuable feature of SPSS and is used by the vast 
> majority of people that buy the SPSS license. It is a real shame that PSPP 
> doesn't have CTABLES as this would be a major factor in more widespread use 
> of this open source solution.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ftr" <address@hidden>
> To: "pspp-users" <address@hidden>
> Sent: Friday, November 6, 2015 5:56:23 AM
> Subject: Re: Multi response sets in PSPP
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> On 06/11/2015 11:24, Michał Dubrawski wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> If the information here is up to date then we have MRSETS command implemented 
> in PSPP
> http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/pspp.html#MRSETS
>
> Is there any way to display these MRSETS in the PSPP output - frequences, 
> percentages or in corss tabs? I'm only using thses MRSETS in SPSS in CTables. 
> I am aware that CTables are not implemented in PSPP and since it is very 
> complicated won't rather be implemented in the nearest future.
>
> If it is not possible to display multi response, maybe implementation of MULT 
> RESPONSE command would be a solution? Is it possoble to implement it?
>
> It is has an option to display frequences, percentages and even cross 
> tabulation. I think that it would be very useful for users, what do you think?
>
> Thanks again to all the developers and people involved with PSPP project for 
> all your work.
>
> kind regards,
>
> Michał Dubrawski
>
> Hi Michal,
>
> survey analyst NEED methods to study multiple-response variables. So I 
> strongly support the idea to implement a Mult Response command.
>
> The help text ends with this cryptic sentence:
>
>
> Otherwise, multiple response sets are currently used only by third party 
> software.
> Dear maintainers, would you please be so kind to explain which third party 
> software is meant ?
>
> TIA
> -ftr
>
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