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.TH pspp 1 "29 Sep 2014" "GNU" "PSPP manual"
.SH NAME
pspp \- a system for statistical analysis
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B pspp
.RI [ options ] " file"...
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fBpspp\fP performs statistical analysis on
sampled data. Detailed documentation is available in html, pdf and info format.
If the info system is installed, you can view the documentation with
.IP
.B info pspp
.PP
On Debian GNU/Linux systems, full documentation is available in
\fB/usr/share/doc/pspp\fP in HTML and PDF formats and in
\fB/usr/share/info\fP in info format. Documentation is
also available at \fBhttp://www.gnu.org/software/pspp\fP.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B \-\-help
Show summary of options.
.TP
.B \-\-version
Show version of program.
.SH EXAMPLE
Create a file \fBexample.sps\fP with the following content:
.PP
.nf
.RS
* Example sps file
data list / v0 to v2 1-9.
begin data.
 12 12 89
 56 12 77
 78 12 73
 90 91
 37 97 85
end data.

descript all
  /stat=all
  /format=serial.
.RE
.fi
.PP
and run pspp with
.IP
.B pspp example.sps
.PP
More examples files are in \fB/usr/share/pspp/examples\fP
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR psppire (1), pspp\-dump\-sav (1), pspp\-convert (1).
.SH AUTHOR
pspp was written by Ben Pfaff, John Darrington and others