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The Rows are numbered, but the columns are named for the variables in the dataset. THE PSPP WORKSPACE Like SPSS, PSPP has a Data Editor window that looks like a spreadsheet - rows and columns.
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Mac OSX: Go to and download to your desktop the version that matches your flavor of OSX (10.8, 10.7, etc.) You'll get the "open box" icon on your desktop.ĭouble-click and the installer will start. It should only take a couple of minutes to download and install. Make sure your virus checker is off, and tell it to Run. (IMPORTANT NOTE: I couldn't get the version dated to work it kept crashing. If you're not sure, use the 32bit version. We'll focus here just on MS Windows and Mac OSX: Windows: Go to and click on the 32-bit or 64-bit version, depending on what your operating system is. PSPP is available for most computer operating systems. DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING PSPP The main PSPP site is at.
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This handout explains how to download, install and use PSPP.
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Happily, the GNU open source software community has cooked up PSPP, a free statistics package that does most of the functions that journalists are likely to want to use. That's just not going to happen in most newsrooms today. The only problem with SPSS is that it costs thousands of dollars just for the base program, and thousands more for specialized modules like logistic regression. A much easier tool is SPSS, a powerful statistical analysis program with a menudriven graphical user interface.
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One of those tools is R, a free open-source tool - very powerful but with a steep learning curve that requires writing code in a quite-opaque programming language. Excel can be tortured into doing many of these things, but there are better tools for these tasks.

Maybe you'll want to calculate how unlikely it is that some outlier test scores could have improved so much just by chance, and not by cheating. Maybe you will need to compare means and medians and quartiles of a bunch of different numerical variables. Maybe you will have raw survey results and need to produce a lot of different crosstabs. Using PSPP, the open-source version of SPSS by Steve Doig, Cronkite School of JournalismĪt some point or other, data journalists will run into the limitations of Excel. The build process of the bundle is controlled via the script here. The bundle is based on the pspp version in Homebrew. Run pspp via the commandline in a terminal.

Note describes how to install an application which is not signed. ID and therefore I cannot sign the application bundle. Nightly builds: Download from github Installation On November 6th 2018, updated to 1.2.0-1 for MacOS on April 10th 2019, updated to 1.2.0-2 on November 17th 2019


I have updated the bundle to also work on MacOS Monterey. On September 5th 2020, should work for all MacOS versions starting from MacOS 10.15 (maybe previous?). This on other MacOS versions, please send me a feedback about your experience. Good chance, that it works also on other versions of MacOS. The bundle is build and tested for MacOS 10.15.7 (Catalina).
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Information how to upgrade a GNU/Linux pspp package is here: This site provides MacOS application bundlesįor pspp. PSPP MacOS bundles PSPP MacOS Bundles PSPP is a software
