Researchers, Statisticians, SPSS, Process by Hayes....

[MrFisty]

How many researchers do we have here?

How many of you all use SPSS?

Anyone familiar with Process by Hayes?

I ask to see others doing things similar as me and because I could use some aid with model 7

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

How many researchers do we have here?

How many of you all use SPSS?

Anyone familiar with Process by Hayes?

I ask to see others doing things similar as me and because I could use some aid with model 7

I used SPSS back in 95 or so. Doubt I could be of much help now though.

[MrFisty]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I used SPSS back in 95 or so. Doubt I could be of much help now though.

I don't mean to age you, but I actually had no idea SPSS was around in 95.

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

I don't mean to age you, but I actually had no idea SPSS was around in 95.

Oh it goes way back further than that I believe. I wouldn't be surprised to learn it was even one of the first practical systems back when computers used punch cards.




Edit:
Was curious so off to Wikipedia I went. Boy did I call that one! I am soooo smart.


Versions and ownership history[edit]

The software was released in its first version in 1968 as the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) after being developed by Norman H. Nie, Dale H. Bent, and C. Hadlai Hull. Those principals incorporated as SPSS Inc. in 1975. Early versions of SPSS Statistics were designed for batch processing on mainframes, including for example IBM and ICL versions, originally using punched cards for input. A processing run read a command file of SPSS commands and either a raw input file of fixed format data with a single record type, or a 'getfile' of data saved by a previous run. To save precious computer time an 'edit' run could be done to check command syntax without analysing the data. From version 10 (SPSS-X) in 1983, data files could contain multiple record types.

[KDad2]

Originally Posted by Tcoat

I used SPSS back in 95 or so. Doubt I could be of much help now though.

Haahaa! Me too...

[Tcoat]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

I don't mean to age you, but I actually had no idea SPSS was around in 95.

Originally Posted by KDad2

Haahaa! Me too...

SEE!

[mdm]

A researcher here, but only had a brief contact with SPSS. I tend to use more modern tools, like Matlab. Whose development started, as wikipedia says, as late as "late 1970s".


[rant mode on] By the way, I am thinking more and more about dropping Matlab... Never liked that it's weakly typed with no explicit variable declarations, never liked 1-based array indexing, hated inconsistencies, but recently they really pissed me off by their complete disregard of backward compatibility. I needed to use a piece of code that I wrote like 5 years ago and it needed pretty deep rewriting [rant mode off]

[MrFisty]

Wow, @Tcoat I'm using version 23!

[MrFisty]

Originally Posted by mdm

A researcher here, but only had a brief contact with SPSS. I tend to use more modern tools, like Matlab. Whose development started, as wikipedia says, as late as "late 1970s".


[rant mode on] By the way, I am thinking more and more about dropping Matlab... Never liked that it's weakly typed with no explicit variable declarations, never liked 1-based array indexing, hated inconsistencies, but recently they really pissed me off by their complete disregard of backward compatibility. I needed to use a piece of code that I wrote like 5 years ago and it needed pretty deep rewriting [rant mode off]

Im considering working in R.

What kind of research do you do?

[mdm]

Originally Posted by MrFisty

What kind of research do you do?

Neuroscience.


I know that many people in the field use Python which apparently has many relevant libraries, I just have never had time to dwelve into it and figure out which potential Matlab replacement would be most appropriate and require as little code rewriting as possible.