About that stats bootcamp. I will have to write an Excel (and Access) bootcamp first, and there’s a problem: Office 2007 has a radically different user interface than all previous versions (yeah, I know all about the Excel 2007 bugs, but I really love the interface — and Microsoft has finally added averageif(), after all these years, so no more sumif(range,”>0″)/countif(range,”>0″), thank God. Why it took them this long, I do not know.)
So it won’t go up immediately, especially since I only used Excel 2007 in the lab sitting in on a friend’s class, haven’t used Access 2007 yet, and won’t until I install it this weekend. And then, of course, figure out where everything in Access is, if it’s changed as much as Excel.
SPSS is SPSS.
I’ll still gear it for the math-anxious (I figure if you’re not math anxious, then you either know it, or you could easily pick up a stats book and absorb it). But unlike the present version, it will focus not only on how to read, interpret, and judge statistics, but also how to run statistical analyses (and which ones in which circumstances, etc.)
But Access/Excel 2007 bootcamp has to go up first (course, you could get SPSS, but most won’t). One of these days, I’m going to get a copy of SAS, which I’ve never used.
The existing version, by the way, is here (and incomplete, since I did it mostly to avoid being annoyed by people who didn’t know ANOVA from Diet Coke). Follow the links at the bottom of the page.
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I am slowly getting used to Microsoft Office 2007. I sort of preferred the old interface, but I am open minded.
I just wish they would give me back my format toobar…