Jarlath Quinn

In this four-part blog series, we’re going to take a look at working with R in SPSS. We’ll begin by

In the previous blog post, we looked at the basics of running R procedures in SPSS syntax. In this post,

Previously, we explored how to install and load an R package to generate correlograms by executing R code within SPSS

In the previous blog post, we created a basic custom dialog using R code in SPSS Statistics that allowed us

Here are a list of some of the most common data cleaning problems that you are likely to encounter and which SPSS procedures help to resolve them.

In this series of ‘eat your greens‘ posts looking at core statistical concepts in more detail, we have looked closely

A worked example of a classic inferential statistical procedure: the independent samples t-test.

This is the latest in our ‘eat your greens’ series – a back to basics look at core statistical concepts

This is the fifth post in our ‘eat your greens’ series – a back to basics look at some of

This is the fourth post in our ‘eat your greens’ series – a back to basics look at some of

None of us can have failed to notice the recent debacle over Ofqual’s (the Office of Qualifications and Examinations Regulation)

This is the third post in our ‘eat your greens’ series – a back to basics look at some of

This is the second post in our ‘eat your greens’ series – a back to basics look at some of

What do we mean when we say something is statistically significant? A guide to one of the most misused concepts in statistics.

This infographic provides an overview of the four main families of approaches to predictive analytics. Prediction encompasses applications that aim

At Smart Vision we’re in a pretty strong position to talk authoritatively about the reality of predictive analytics. That’s because

Like a lot of consultants working in the analytics industry, I’ve built up an extensive portfolio of materials to illustrate

An in depth guide to using the chi-squared test to determine statistical significance.

What is correlation? Correlation is a term that we employ in everyday speech to denote things that appear to have

While reading Jared Diamond’s excellent book on the rise and subsequent global dominance of Eurasian societies Guns, Germs and Steel, I

There’s been a fair amount of discussion recently as to whether or not the whole big data analytics agenda has

In my last blog post I talked about how it’s now possible to automate large parts of your predictive analytics

What do you think of when you hear phrases like predictive analytics, data mining or machine learning? For many people