[Blindmath] Spss 16 nightmare

[Diane]

I am so glad you asked this Vincent, as I also am required to use SPSS for 
my stats class, but haven't started to tackle it yet.
I'll be interested to see if anyone can help!
Diane
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "vincent" <vmartin at mindspring.com>
To: <blindmath at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 11:55 AM
Subject: [Blindmath] Spss 16 nightmare


> Hello:
> I am taking a quantitative research methods and Engineering Psychology 
> class
> this semester and both are requiring me to use SPSS version 16 to 
> calculate
> results.  I have done everything imaginable to make SPSS talk enough for 
> me
> to use, but to no avail.  I have installed the old scripts and the Java
> access bridge.  It speaks somewhat, but not enough to truly function.  The
> disability services office took my advice and is going to provide me a
> reader to read the screen for me, so I can at least complete my homework.
>
> Does anyone know if the statistical package "R: can do the same things 
> that
> SPSS will do?  Also, will it read a .sav Spss file or will I have to try 
> and
> export the data from the spss file.
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated, because I just don't have the
> time to do all the research this weekend myself.  I have to spend time
> catching up in my JAVA programming class.  Of curse the compiler the 
> school
> is using was written in JAVA and does not speak enough to use.  I have 
> moved
> on to Eclipse and am happily coding away.
>
>
>
> "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs, you'll be 
> a
> Man, my son!"
>
> Rudyard Kipling
>
>
>
>
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