oooh, I was asked to do an "individual difference analysis on the relationship between my two DVs by the 3 participant groups" for one study. I eventually found something that might fit what statistics they requested in SPSS menus, but when I tried it, I wasn't sure what to pay attention to on the pages and pages of info it spit out.
I'm also trying to sort out how to do MANOVAs and understand what parts of the output to pay attention to, either in SAS or SPSS.
I am *trying* to learn SAS because there are some definite perks to having unlimited data columns, and ease of doing posthocs even if its a mixed research design, but apparently the version of the SAS that our tech support installed (after 6 months of trying to install it and failing) is horribly and deeply broken, missing the ability to import data from spreadsheet programs, the nice menu-driven attempt SAS makes at improving its user-friendliness *AND* is missing a syntax editor too. I didn't know it was possible to have a version of SAS without a syntax editor, but apparently it is. So part of my frustration was just having to resort to nefarious means in order to get access to a non-broken version, and knowing that one of the few problems at work that was my responsibility to deal with (getting SAS installed at work) is still a problem I'm going to have to continue dealing with...
Ugh, that is a mess. Off-hand, I'm not sure what analysis they are looking for on "individual difference analysis on the relationship between my two DVs by the 3 participant groups". That's nothing I've ever heard before. I'd have to see the output to know what to tell you to look at. You can email me with the details if you still need help. Sorry I was so slow in responding. Work and School got nasty busy at the same time. I wish they would stop doing that and play nice together. ;)
I'm also trying to sort out how to do MANOVAs and understand what parts of the output to pay attention to, either in SAS or SPSS.
I am *trying* to learn SAS because there are some definite perks to having unlimited data columns, and ease of doing posthocs even if its a mixed research design, but apparently the version of the SAS that our tech support installed (after 6 months of trying to install it and failing) is horribly and deeply broken, missing the ability to import data from spreadsheet programs, the nice menu-driven attempt SAS makes at improving its user-friendliness *AND* is missing a syntax editor too. I didn't know it was possible to have a version of SAS without a syntax editor, but apparently it is. So part of my frustration was just having to resort to nefarious means in order to get access to a non-broken version, and knowing that one of the few problems at work that was my responsibility to deal with (getting SAS installed at work) is still a problem I'm going to have to continue dealing with...
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