What Does PSPP Mean?
PSPP is an open-source application used for statistical analysis of sampled data. Considered as an alternative to the proprietary statistics application, IBM SPSS, it is similar in many aspects to the SPSS application. PSPP is considered a powerful tool for data pre-processing, data visualization, data analysis and hypothesis testing, and is aimed at social scientists, students and statisticians. The name has no official expansion.
Techopedia Explains PSPP
PSPP was created as an open-source replacement for the data management and analysis tool SPSS. The proprietary licensing of SPSS and the digital restrictions management led to the birth of the functionally identical PSPP. Similar to other open-source applications, PSPP can be copied, shared or modified and can be obtained in the same manner as other GNU software applications. PSPP is developed using the C programming language and makes use of the GNU Scientific Library for mathematical routines. PSPP can access some of the libraries programmatically.
