Re: New commands on the Extension Hub

Posted by Bruce Weaver on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/New-commands-on-the-Extension-Hub-tp5740306p5740316.html

Thanks for the update, Jon.  

At the risk of setting the cat among the pigeons, if IBM had even a little
bit of interest in writing native SPSS code for the methods that currently
require R or Python extension commands, this would not be an issue.  :-|  



Jon Peck wrote

> Recently I wrote about the STATS CONVERT PYTHON extension command that
> converts Python 2 code to Python 3 so that you can use it with Statistics
> 27, which does not support Python 2 out of the box.  I wrote about this on
> the IBM Community site here
> https://community.ibm.com/community/user/datascience/viewdocument/python-2-to-python-3-conversion-for-1?CommunityKey=886b6874-0fb1-402c-8243-c70ef8179a99&tab=librarydocuments
>
> This command is now on the Extension Hub and can be installed via the
> Extensions > Extension Hub menu in Statistics 27.
>
> Commands in the title of this post is plural, so I want to report that
> there is another new command also on the Extension Hub: STATS RESIDUAL
> BOXPLOTS.  This command can be useful in checking for heteroscedasticity
> and functional form problems in regression.  It produces a set of linked
> boxplots of residuals against predicted values.  Like most extensions, it
> has a custom dialog box and SPSS-style syntax.  When you install it, a
> short article on usage is saved in the STATS_RESIDUAL_BOXPLOTS directory
> under the installation location.
>
> The command requires the appropriate version of R and the R Essentials for
> Statistics.  While it was developed using Statistics V27, I expect that it
> will work with V24 and later.
>
>
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> Jon K Peck

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