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Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

Pick posted:

an important life lesson is doing things the wrong way if it's how your boss told you to do it :(

This is true, unfortunately.

:synpa:

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Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you


as bad as spss is, pspp is an order of magnitude worse as should be expected i guess

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless
statistics this should I sell NVDA or wait for post ER

what is the likelihood that I am a lovely poster

Decebal
Jan 6, 2010

Pick posted:

an important life lesson is doing things the wrong way if it's how your boss told you to do it :(

Put some weird bug venom in his drink

Entropist
Dec 1, 2007
I'm very stupid.
list of worse statistical packages than R:

- all of them (except maybe Python + libraries)

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Decebal posted:

Put some weird bug venom in his drink

that seems like a bad idea

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless

Pick posted:

that seems like a bad idea

Wuss

paul_soccer10
Mar 28, 2016

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
:3

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

Entropist posted:

list of worse statistical packages than R:

- all of them (except maybe Python + libraries)

ok ok but why has no one written a decent guide to coding in R

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Pick posted:

ok ok but why has no one written a decent guide to coding in R

because the only people who use it are already supersperg savants

Dogmeat
Jun 20, 2003


Woof!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZEdDMQZaCU

Judakel
Jul 29, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 9 years!
what use are statistics in the kitchen op

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx

Pick posted:

ok ok but why has no one written a decent guide to coding in R

it's called google op

TheUltimateDoofus
May 21, 2016
use Stata

Stata is great for implementing a lot of stuff and is not very 'programmy' but if you are doing 'serious' stats you'll hit it's limits pretty quickly


For me I like Matlab. it's fast and programming is straightforward, and it's good for going back and forth between math and stats but you have do a lot of stuff manually

but I am going to pick up R soon I think because it's supposedly a good mix of having boatloads of packages/functions to do standard stuff like stata and doing more custom mathy stuff without having to switch stuff over to matlab

TheUltimateDoofus
May 21, 2016
i've heard tales of a program called uh GRENDL i think that is legendary bad

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx
lol if u don't use r studio

Julius CSAR
Oct 3, 2007

by sebmojo
Spread the word, to stop the word

Business Octopus
Jun 27, 2005

Me IRL
I used to use IDL and I liked it does anyone use that program any more? I made it make a lot of little graphs and Fourier transform stuff it was neat.

Try taking a course on coursera OP. But at the end of the day you're an academic so everyone expects your code to be garbage

Pick
Jul 19, 2009
Nap Ghost

TheUltimateDoofus posted:

i've heard tales of a program called uh GRENDL i think that is legendary bad

isn't that like

actually the monster so

that isn't encouraging

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc

Pick posted:

isn't that like

actually the monster so

that isn't encouraging

you thought GRENDL was bad, wait till you see what it came from

autoaim.cfg
Aug 6, 2005
:qq: WHINY SHITHEAD :qq:
*drops mic*
Wait... are you telling me that there are OTHER statistical programs than SPSS?

Oh God, how I loathe this poo poo. I did my masters in pol.sci with a buttload of SPSS wrangling and it murdered my brains. The best part was when I was trying to calculate the confidence level of some data I had and I could not make heads or tails of it and spent an ungodly amount of time on it before I realized that I was being absolutely retarded, because I wasn't dealing with a sample of a population at all. The data I had was the entire population, so the confidence is automatically 100%. I could have headbutted the monitor right then and there.

Moridin920
Nov 15, 2007

by FactsAreUseless

autoaim.cfg posted:

Wait... are you telling me that there are OTHER statistical programs than SPSS?

Oh God, how I loathe this poo poo. I did my masters in pol.sci with a buttload of SPSS wrangling and it murdered my brains. The best part was when I was trying to calculate the confidence level of some data I had and I could not make heads or tails of it and spent an ungodly amount of time on it before I realized that I was being absolutely retarded, because I wasn't dealing with a sample of a population at all. The data I had was the entire population, so the confidence is automatically 100%. I could have headbutted the monitor right then and there.

lol

Piso Mojado
Aug 6, 2013

lol R is great and you are a babby gbs fail-troll.

Piso Mojado
Aug 6, 2013

autoaim.cfg posted:

Wait... are you telling me that there are OTHER statistical programs than SPSS?

Oh God, how I loathe this poo poo. I did my masters in pol.sci with a buttload of SPSS wrangling and it murdered my brains. The best part was when I was trying to calculate the confidence level of some data I had and I could not make heads or tails of it and spent an ungodly amount of time on it before I realized that I was being absolutely retarded, because I wasn't dealing with a sample of a population at all. The data I had was the entire population, so the confidence is automatically 100%. I could have headbutted the monitor right then and there.

you should probably understand middle school statistics before attempting to use stats software.

yoloer420
May 19, 2006

Slime Bro Helpdesk posted:

R is, I think, considered very good?

It is very good. The OP is just dumb.

The Phlegmatist
Nov 24, 2003

I Am A Robot posted:

R is easily the best statistical software out there (like by a lot)

it's also really terrible and as a programming language it feels like it was developed by aliens

aliens? more like academics

yeah let's have about a hundred different data types for storing a table and none of the library functions agree on which to use glhf hope you like casting

Harald
Jul 10, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
its free tho

a few DRUNK BONERS
Mar 25, 2016

you can do statistics with a slide rule and a table of numbers in a book so i don't know why you're wasting your time with this computer nonsense

ScRoTo TuRbOtUrD
Jan 21, 2007

zsnes is terrible at statistical analysis

Lawrence Gilchrist
Mar 31, 2010

hth posted:

zsnes is terrible at statistical analysis

wow a ppsspp joke

OXBALLS DOT COM
Sep 11, 2005

by FactsAreUseless
Young Orc
So, what kind of ram does it have

tsa
Feb 3, 2014

yoloer420 posted:

It is very good. The OP is just dumb.

Jel Shaker
Apr 19, 2003

autoaim.cfg posted:

Wait... are you telling me that there are OTHER statistical programs than SPSS?

Oh God, how I loathe this poo poo. I did my masters in pol.sci with a buttload of SPSS wrangling and it murdered my brains. The best part was when I was trying to calculate the confidence level of some data I had and I could not make heads or tails of it and spent an ungodly amount of time on it before I realized that I was being absolutely retarded, because I wasn't dealing with a sample of a population at all. The data I had was the entire population, so the confidence is automatically 100%. I could have headbutted the monitor right then and there.

Ha we've all been there

tsa
Feb 3, 2014

Piso Mojado posted:

you should probably understand middle school statistics before attempting to use stats software.

watching social scientists try and do statistics is like watching a gorilla trying to invent flight.

GRILLARY CLINTON
Mar 5, 2016

I know the devil is real.
I know the devil is real.

Pick posted:

ok ok but why has no one written a decent guide to coding in R

https://www.amazon.com/Art-Programming-Statistical-Software-Design/dp/1593273843/
https://www.amazon.com/Cookbook-OReilly-Cookbooks-Paul-Teetor/dp/0596809158/

reignofevil
Nov 7, 2008

Pick posted:

an important life lesson is doing things the wrong way if it's how your boss told you to do it :(

Smash the state comrade.

Flavahbeast
Jul 21, 2001


I use JMP for my job but ive heard R is better but I've never used R, so JMP might be worse??

Dogmeat
Jun 20, 2003


Woof!

tsa posted:

watching social scientists try and do statistics is like watching a gorilla trying to invent flight.

Funny, that's what social scientists say about math nerds trying to get laid.

tsa
Feb 3, 2014
no its not

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LuciferMorningstar
Aug 12, 2012

VIDEO GAME MODIFICATION IS TOTALLY THE SAME THING AS A FEMALE'S BODY AND CLONING SAID MODIFICATION IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS RAPE, GUYS!!!!!!!
R is actually really good and there is documentation absolutely everywhere for it. What are you trying to do?

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