[nabs-l] SPSS Help

[justin williams]

I did use excel; it was clunky.  I had to have someone put it into excel for
me I think.  Tha semester is a hayze. She is write about the parts which are
inaccessible.  Maybe you can find the sass commands. somewhere.


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From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Arielle
Silverman via nabs-l
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 8:43 PM
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Subject: Re: [nabs-l] SPSS Help

Hi Miso, SPSS does work with JAWS, but it's clunky and inconvenient. A
bigger issue is its expense. If you will have access to a university
computer with JAWS and SPSS already installed, this won't be a problem, but
if you will need to use your personal computer, you would have to buy an
SPSS license. If you are just taking this one class, it is probably a better
use of your time and money to either use a free statistical program or a
human reader, partner, etc. Microsoft Excel will run many of the statistical
functions needed for an intro class.
Another option is an online calculator at www.graphpad.com/quickcalcs If you
are just taking this one class and don't have access to a university
computer, I would suggest asking your professor permission to do assignments
in Excel or GraphPad.

If you are planning to do independent research, or take multiple statistics
classes, then it might be worth it to buy SPSS. SAS is a more accessible
alternative, but can be harder to learn if you aren't being taught specific
commands.
If you go the SPSS route, keep in mind that data editing and output reading
are not accessible yet, to my knowledge. You can work around this by
importing your data from Excel into SPSS and then saving your output as a
spreadsheet and opening it up in Excel. This is clunky, but it works.
Feel free to email with more specific questions: arielle71 at gmail.com

Best, Arielle

On 7/17/15, justin williams via nabs-l <nabs-l at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I hear that SAS is better; when I used SspSS, Jaws only partially worked.
> I'm not sure if there was a knowledge and skill issue or not.  
> However, I would suggest using a braille display on the parts where 
> jaws does not work.
> There are key commands for it.  I'll do the best I can to find them 
> and send them to you.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nabs-l [mailto:nabs-l-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Miso Kwak 
> via nabs-l
> Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 11:52 AM
> To: nabs-l at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Miso Kwak
> Subject: [nabs-l] SPSS Help
>
> Hello,
> I will be beginning a course on psychology research method in two 
> weeks. I am aware that my class will be utilizing SPSS as a part of 
> our class for statistical analysis.
> How accessible is SPSS with JAWS?
> Is there any tutorial I could read or listen to?
> Or if you have experience using SPSS with JAWS and could help me out, 
> I would appreciate your time.
> Thank you.
> Best,
> Miso Kwak
>
>
>
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