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1. Bob Muenchen

   · Retired statistician at University of Tennessee · about 2 years ago
   Good choice for teaching stats

   JASP works very similarly to jamovi. That's not a coincidence, as some JASP developers split off to create jamovi. You can open a single dataset and use the most popular statistics and machine learning methods. But if you have multiple datasets to merge, you must do that in another tool. Also, the dataset must maintain a single structure throughout your analyses. Restructuring or transposing is not allowed. It is commonly said that data scientists spend 80% of their time wrangling data like that, so that's a significant limitation for general use. However, those simplifications make JASP a good choice for teaching. Another advantage for teaching is that the menus are very sparse, but you can add to them easily by downloading additional modules. That's the opposite of similar software such as BlueSky Statistics, SPSS, or Minitab, which install all features at once. If you're looking for free and open-source software, JASP and jamovi are best for teaching while BlueSky Statistics is best for general-purpose analysis.

   Competitors: BlueSky Statistics

   Pros:    Easy user interface

   Cons:    Limited features

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JASP mentions (15)

• Bayesian Epistemology

  For anyone looking for a quick and hands-on dive into the world of Bayesian modelling and inference, I can't recommend JASP enough, made freely available by the University of Amsterdam[0]. I've recommended it before, and it's just a breeze to work with, seeing frequentist and Bayesian analyses side-by-side. [0]: https://jasp-stats.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Introduction to Modern Statistics

  Anyone looking to apply and compare frequentist and bayesian methods within a unified GUI (which is essentially an elegant wrapper to R and selected/custom statistical packages), should check out JASP developed by the University of Amsterdam [0]. It's free to use, and the graphs + captions generated on each step are of publication quality out of the box. Using it truly feels like a 'fresh way' to do... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

• Can anyone share spss for macOS?

  Https://jasp-stats.org fully free. Its advisible to learn python, R or matlab for graduate school. Source: about 3 years ago

• Help with my analysis in spss. I have 5 independent (ordinal) variables. 1 Moderator and 1 dependent variable. How do I run a multiple regression in SPSS?

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