[Social-sciences-list] R: SPSS 22

Fri Nov 15 08:32:34 UTC 2013

Hi Veronica and All,
  Not sure whether this will help you, but I recently finished my training as a cognitive psychologist studying psycholinguistics, a subdiscipline within cognition. During my training my advisor, as well as numerous others in this field who all use R (social scientists) recommended the below book.

Baayen, R. H. (2006). Practical Data Analysis for the Language Sciences. 

  I am not finding a direct publisher, but the below department may have published this for him. He is a well-respected researcher in my field.

Interfaculty research unit for language and speech, University of Nijmegen, & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

  Good luck and sorry I can not provide more direct assistance regarding your specific problem, but hopefully this book can help!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Chris
Christine M. Szostak, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology
Shorter University
Rome, Georgia
szostak.1 at osu.edu

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Veronica 
  To: 'Blind Social Scientists List' 
  Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 3:01 AM
  Subject: [Social-sciences-list] R: SPSS 22

  Hi Vincent and Jonathan,

  I have an old version of SPSS, I never installed access bridge. 

  I found a lot of R resources and examples of sintax, in particular in medical or bio-medical sciences.

  I need specific information about sintax, for example how to do compute variable using Mean function, or recode a variable into an other, in social science field.

  It's not very easy to convert fron medical to social science. I need to study it!

  I thank you very much.

  Veronica

  Da: Social-sciences-list [mailto:social-sciences-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] Per conto di Vincent Martin
  Inviato: giovedì 14 novembre 2013 22:31
  A: 'Blind Social Scientists List'
  Oggetto: Re: [Social-sciences-list] SPSS 22

  Jonathan,

  I beta-tested earlier this summer and they seem to have gotten all the bugs I encountered fixed by release time.  From what I have been told, this is a better implementation.  The installation actually asks if you want JAWS access during the installation and checks to see if you have the right version of the Access bridge installed.  I am unsure if it installs it if a person does not have it installed though.  There  were four things that I was supposed to do to insure speech compatibility, but I haven't even done it yet.    

  From: Social-sciences-list [mailto:social-sciences-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Godfrey, Jonathan
  Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 4:20 PM
  To: Blind Social Scientists List
  Subject: [Social-sciences-list] SPSS 22

  Hello Vince,

  When you say back to the days before going Java crazy, do you mean we wouldn't have to use the access bridge? Is this a move away from Java or just a superior implementation?

  Jonathan

  From: Social-sciences-list [mailto:social-sciences-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Vincent Martin
  Sent: Friday, 15 November 2013 10:05 a.m.
  To: 'Blind Social Scientists List'
  Subject: Re: [Social-sciences-list] problems with R

  I am evaluating the latest build of SPSS 22.  So far, it seems to be back to the level of accessibility I had before they went JAVA crazy a few years ago.  Of course the output is still inaccessible, but the GUI seems to be working well.  In my initial evaluation, I was able to type data into to the data editor again.  

  From: Social-sciences-list [mailto:social-sciences-list-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Godfrey, Jonathan
  Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:10 PM
  To: Blind Social Scientists List
  Subject: Re: [Social-sciences-list] problems with R

  Hello,

  The base installation of R is as accessible as stats software gets.

  R commander is an add-on that uses a development toolkit that creates an inaccessible front end that overlays R. It is really useful for sighted students who have used other stats software like SPSS or Minitab where pull down menus and dialogue boxes are the normal way of working. It does alos generate R code, but this code is not just basic R but includes commands specific tot he Rcmdr library.

  If you do choose to continue using R, then you will need to use R without the R commander add-on.

  You may find a few useful things to help you on your way with R at 

  http://r-resources.massey.ac.nz

  I updated a couple of the pages there yesterday actually having created a few MP3 files with some of the basic things I done with R and a few screen reader and operating system combinations.

  You might drop me a line with your experiences of R and SPSS at some stage. I am trying to keep a good handle on how blind people are getting on with statistics software.

  Jonathan

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