[Social-sciences-list] jaws and spss

[Arielle Silverman]

Hi Peter,
If you could tell us a bit more about what you will need to do for
your new job in terms of stats, we can advise you as to whether it is
worth learning a proprietary program like SPSS or if a stats website
or free program (Excel etc.) would suffice.
Arielle

On 2/14/13, vincent martin <vmartin at mindspring.com> wrote:
> Peter:
> What have you used to do Statistical calculations in the past?  As
> Christine
> said, the real access that screen reader users have is done with either
> "r"
> or pipestat.  Depending upon what you are doing, a lot can also be done
> using Excel as well.  I personally have been able to also get most things
> done with SAS   as well.  In that case, you might as well learn to use "R",
> since you would have to learn to use SAS from the terminal line.
> []
> In the next two days, I will be posting the first to two surveys leading to
> prototypes that will be tested for my Master's Project later this semester.
> It is my hope and goal to have some form of real workaround that will allow
> us to fully use SPSS by the time I finish my Ph. D dissertation.  I learned
> to use "R" and love its power, but SPSS is still used in the Social
> Sciences
> the most.
>
>
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