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SPSS Alternatives for Ubuntu

Asked by John2

Hi all,

I am looking for an alternative to SPSS, the statistical software for academic research, that can work conveniently in Ubuntu.

I am a Linux newbie, so the software should be easy to understand and with a graphic interface.

Thank you in advance.

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Best Josh Kupershmidt (schmiddy) said : 		#1

Here's a helpful forum discussion I found relating to this issue:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-33052.html

In short, you have a few options:

 * Pick a new open-source statistical package which you should be able to find in Ubuntu's package manager (PSPP, R, or similar). This is the route I'd recommend. Try several and see which one you like best, and will be able to solve the types of problems you encounter. PSPP seems specifically geared towards former SPSS users like yourself, and it looks like it has a decent GUI to boot.

 * Attempt to run SPSS under wine. I'd recommend this only if you have a large amount of pre-existing SPSS code which would be too difficult to port to the free PSPP, and you have someone very handy with wine to help you out -- wine support for SPSS appears lackluster at this point. See
 http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=1028

Hope this helps
Josh

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John2 (humright2) said : 		#2

Thanks Josh Kupershmidt, that solved my question.

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John2 (humright2) said : 		#3

I eventually chose PSPP, because as you said, it resembles SPSS both by logic and interface.
Thanks again for the information !