Due to their widespread use, comma- and tab-delimited text files can be opened by several kinds of applications, including most spreadsheet programs, and statistical analysis tools such as PSPP, sometimes even without the user designating which delimiter has been used.
FIASCO, the name used by very early versions of PSPP, a free software application for analysis of sampled data
In the book "SPSS For Dummies", the author discusses PSPP under the heading of "Ten Useful Things You Can Find on the Internet".
The need to extract usable public health information from the mass of data available requires the public health informaticist to become familiar with a range of analysis tools, ranging from business intelligence tools to produce routine or ad hoc reports, to sophisticated statistical analysis tools such as DAP/SAS and PSPP/SPSS, to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to expose the geographical dimension of public health trends.
Some statistical software packages like PSPP, SPSS and SYSTAT label the standardized regression coefficients as "Beta" while the unstandardized coefficients are labeled "B".
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