Xref: utzoo sci.math:4083 comp.sys.ibm.pc:16740 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!nsc!pyramid!octopus!pete From: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) Newsgroups: sci.math,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: What is a good statistical analysis package for surveys? Message-ID: <259@octopus.UUCP> Date: 28 Jun 88 00:30:18 GMT Reply-To: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann) Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA Lines: 29 Hi! Here's hoping the collective wisdom of the Net can help out again. I'm doing a volunteer project that involves figuring out what the answers to a survey mean. I'm sitting in front of a stack of 300 survey responses. There are 40 questions, most with simple pick-one-of-several answers, a few with pick-any-of-the-following-10-choices answers. A very few have numeric responses (age, # people in household). I'd like to find all statistically significant two-way correlations in this data. I've written a simple dBase program that will make entering the data easy. THE QUESTION: Is there a statistical package out there that will make my life easy in this project? At this point, I really don't care about fancy graphs and other stuff like that. Correlations are necessary. A dBase interface would be nice. Handling text (vs. numeric) data is pretty important. Any opinions would be *much* appreciated, soon. I'll summarize whatever I learn (from the Net or elsewhere) if there is any interest. Thanks! Pete -- OOO __| ___ Peter Holzmann, Octopus Enterprises OOOOOOO___/ _______ USPS: 19611 La Mar Court, Cupertino, CA 95014 OOOOO \___/ UUCP: {hpda,pyramid}!octopus!pete ___| \_____ Phone: 408/996-7746