SPSS Community News

[Jon K Peck]

As has already been discovered, fixpack1 for Statistics V21 is now available: it was posted sometime Wednesday.  While we like to keep the list informed, this is an informal mechanism and shouldn't be relied on as the official notification mechanism.

I would like to remind users that we welcome contributed code on the SPSS Community site.  Anyone can post something to their (free) account on IBM developerworks - www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks - subject to the reasonable Terms & Conditions posted on the site (no copyright or patent infringement, nothing malicious etc).  If you post a file and would like it listed in one or more of the SPSS Community collections, that is easy to  arrange.  Instructions are on the Welcome page of the site.

If you set up an account, you can also create your own blog on dW.  The SPSS Community blog is not as active as it should be, but the bookmarks on the site list a number of other blog sites with good content, such as Andy W's.  If you know of other good blogs that should be listed, you can send me a note.

Regards,

Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
Senior Software Engineer, IBM
[hidden email]
phone: [phone]

[Andy W]

I would suggest (for everyone) to bookmark Kirill Orlov's macros page, http://rivita.ru/spssmacros_en.shtml. He posts here from time to time and is a regular contributor to the crossvalidated stats forum. His work is a bit out of my domain, but appears to me to be alot of useful info and tools for clustering.

Also his Fit covariates macro set are directly pertinent to the recent discussion about creating data with pre-specified correlations.

[David Marso]

I concur (bookmarked it some time back):
However if you try to read the macro code and understand it you will likely experience an overwhelming urge to gouge your eyes out with a sharpened spoon ;-)
How about sprinkling a few inline comments here and there?
One of these days I think I'll freeze me a bottle of Vodka and sip my way through a few of those until my head explodes! ;-)))
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Andy W wrote

I would suggest (for everyone) to bookmark Kirill Orlov's macros page, http://rivita.ru/spssmacros_en.shtml. He posts here from time to time and is a regular contributor to the crossvalidated stats forum. His work is a bit out of my domain, but appears to me to be alot of useful info and tools for clustering.

Also his Fit covariates macro set are directly pertinent to the recent discussion about creating data with pre-specified correlations.

[King Douglas]

Hey, David,

I know Kirill (cf. http://www.kingdouglas.com/SPSS.htm )

He probably thinks there is no need to comment on the obvious.

Cheers,

Knig

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I concur (bookmarked it some time back):
However if you try to read the macro code and understand it you will likely
experience an overwhelming urge to gouge your eyes out with a sharpened
spoon ;-)
How about sprinkling a few inline comments here and there?
One of these days I think I'll freeze me a bottle of Vodka and sip my way
through a few of those until my head explodes! ;-)))
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Andy W wrote
> I would suggest (for everyone) to bookmark Kirill Orlov's macros page,
> http://rivita.ru/spssmacros_en.shtml. He posts here from time to time and
> is a regular contributor to the crossvalidated stats forum. His work is a
> bit out of my domain, but appears to me to be alot of useful info and
> tools for clustering.
>
> Also his Fit covariates macro set are directly pertinent to the recent
> discussion about creating data with pre-specified correlations.





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[David Marso]

LMAO!
He could at least put a Dante quote at the top!
"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here"...
Seriously:  Those are either works of a rare genius or a complete madman!
Lest anyone be offended: consider the source ;-)  
King, I am feeling left out ;-(
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King Douglas wrote

Hey, David,

I know Kirill (cf. http://www.kingdouglas.com/SPSS.htm )

He probably thinks there is no need to comment on the obvious.

Cheers,

Knig

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David Marso
Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 8:43 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: SPSS Community News

I concur (bookmarked it some time back):
However if you try to read the macro code and understand it you will likely
experience an overwhelming urge to gouge your eyes out with a sharpened
spoon ;-)
How about sprinkling a few inline comments here and there?
One of these days I think I'll freeze me a bottle of Vodka and sip my way
through a few of those until my head explodes! ;-)))
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Andy W wrote
> I would suggest (for everyone) to bookmark Kirill Orlov's macros page,
> http://rivita.ru/spssmacros_en.shtml. He posts here from time to time and
> is a regular contributor to the crossvalidated stats forum. His work is a
> bit out of my domain, but appears to me to be alot of useful info and
> tools for clustering.
>
> Also his Fit covariates macro set are directly pertinent to the recent
> discussion about creating data with pre-specified correlations.





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[Kirill Orlov]

David,
I only tonight noticed your remark on that there is no comments in my published code.
Actually, I not a genius nor an idiot, and do carefully comment my every code line... for myself.
But in file copies that are on my there web-page all the comments had been erased. This is simply because I don't pursue the aim to make it readable or understandable (on that specific web-page).