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How to install SPSS 16 in 10.10?

Asked by Nucleuslentiformis

please help me how to install SPSS 16 in Maverick. When installation reach 99% (Finalizing Vital Product Data Registry), it took so long. and nothing happened for the the next 30 minutes. the harddisk lamp didnt show any activity. What does that mean, and what should i do? I need to work with SPSS to finish my final assigment project.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

SPSS is a proprietary program; we can't really do much if it is not working having followed the distributor's instructions - you will need to contact your distributor for assistance.

In the mean time, are you familiar with the PSPP package, which is a free replacement for SPSS?
http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/

This should be in the package archives, so you can install it very easily.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/maverick/pspp

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Nucleuslentiformis (nucleuslentiformis) said : 		#2

i've installed pspp, but it's to simple. i didnt get what i expected from spss in pspp. for example the data descriptive analysis, i didnt found wether my data is normally distributed or not in pspp but i found this in spss. Data distribution is the very first step to analyze my research data.

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#3

Hi Nucleus,

I had a look, and the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for normality has only been added in august last year :(.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=pspp.git;a=commitdiff;h=e30f5e6b6bf7a3b862dacce6b17635e8bf0d909d

This probably hasn't filtered into the latest ubuntu. You could *try* the PPA here:

https://launchpad.net/~gandalf/+archive/pspp

but I don't if think this is sufficiently up-to-date, as the PPA for maverick was last built in June.

There is apparently a KS test in R, but R is not a graphical program, and I have no experience with it.

Sorry for not being more helpful.

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