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QTAFI (Questions, Tables and Figures) adalah suatu aplikasi yang dikembangkan untuk mempermudah pelaksanaan survey. Dengan QTAFI kita bisa dengan mudah membuat kuisioner, membuat lembar data di SPSS dan mempermudah proses analisis data dengan SPSS. Aplikasi ini sangat cocok bagi mahasiswa yang akan membuat kuisioner ataupun fakultas atau universitas yang akan mengadakan survey penelusuran alumni (graduate survey atau tracer study).

QTAFI adalah aplikasi yang berbasis makro. Bentuk aplikasi ini berupa file dokumen berekstensi doc (seperti dokumen yang biasa kita buat lewat MS Word), hanya saja terkandung makro QTAFI di dalamnya. Untuk menjalankan aplikasi ini tentu saja MS Word harus sudah terpasang di komputer kita.

Saya mulai menggunakan aplikasi ini sejak tahun 2003, pada waktu itu aplikasi ini membantu pelaksanaan survey penelusuran alumni di UGM. Sejak saat itu saya terlibat dalam pengembangan QTAFI dan online.QTAFI (QTAFI berbasis web) walaupun hanya sebagai tester setia . Sampai saat ini pengembangan aplikasi ini terus berlanjut, terutama untuk versi online yang sudah sampai pada versi 2. Saat ini puluhan online survey secara bersamaan berjalan di server online.QTAFI2.

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Hi there! Some of my friends said that my blog is… well… how should I say this.. Not expressive, not personal enough, too heavy. They said that I should put more pictures, tell something more about my self, a little bit show off or something .
I don’t know why, I just can not write like any other blog out there. I can not open my self too big in this blog, it’s just too scary for me ha3.. I guess it’s just not me. However, today I want to share one good news with you all.

It started with a comment in this post from Carmen. She informed me about ICP (International Congress of Psychology). Then I just search for my old paper and without any consideration (about the quality of my paper ) I sent them away. I already forgot it when suddenly last week there was this email from ICP that said it is accepted as a poster for the congress. Yay!!!
A little bit sad though.. not accepted as oral presentation, but I think it’s good enough for now . And after I think about it, with poster there will be more people have access to my paper compared to oral presentation.

Thank you to ICP committee for embracing this paper. Thank you for my parent, Mom I love you so much! Thank you for my producer, my song writer and most of all, thank you to the people all around the world who have been touched by my song… Wait… wait… WAKE UP! This is not Grammy Award!!!

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This article is basically ripped off from Field’s Discovering Statistics Using SPSS for Windows with some minor subjective interpretation from me. So if you have access to the book just read it instead of this article. It is really a good book for you who want to learn SPSS and statistics. Highly recommended book !

Factor analysis was first used in 1904 by Charles Spearman, a Psychologist
from United Kingdom. Spearman used factor analysis in his models of human
intelligence. With factor analysis he developed theory that variety of cognitive test
could all be explained by one single factor which called g factor. Later on Raymond
Cattell, psychologist from US, used factor analysis in most of his research on
intelligence which lead to the development of his theory on Fluid and Crystallized
Intelligence. 16 Personality Factor (16PF) test is also one of Raymond Cattell’s
research results based on factor analysis.

Factor analysis is quiet different to other statistical analysis method. Many
statistical analysis methods are used to investigate the relation between
independent and dependent variables. In contrast, factor analysis is used to study
the patterns of relationship among many dependent variables, with the goal of
discovering something about the nature of independent variables that affect them.
The tricky part is that those independent variables were not measure directly. Thus
answers obtained by factor analysis are necessarily more hypothetical and tentative
than is true when independent variables are observed directly (Darlington, 1997).

Factor analysis in psychology is most often associated with intelligence
research. Nevertheless, the use of factor analysis can be observed in other domain
of psychology such as personality, attitudes, etc. The trait theorists in psychology
have been used factor analysis to measure personality traits. The Extraversion-
Introversion and the Neuroticism traits by Eysenck and 16 Personality Factor
questionnaires (16 PF) by Cattell are some of the examples of implementation of
Factor Analysis (Field, 2000). Furthermore, factor analysis is used widely in other
social sciences, education, business fields, biological science, etc.

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Wine adalah suatu program loader yang memungkinkan pengguna Linux untuk menjalankan aplikasi Windows di Linux. Untuk menggunakan Wine tentu saja kita harus memasangnya terlebih dahulu. Jalankan perintah

# urpmi wine

Selanjutnya Wine akan terpasang, kemungkinan beberapa pustaka harus di pasang terlebih dahulu tergantung kondisi mesin Linux Anda. Wine akan terpasang di bawah direktori home Anda: /home/nama pengguna/.wine/.

Selanjutnya jalankan perintah konfigurasi Wine:

#winecfg

Akan muncul kotak dialog untuk mengkonfigurasi Wine sesuai dengan kondisi partisi Windows dan Linux di komputer Anda.

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