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Melanjutkan postingan sebelumnya tentang aplikasi statistik di GNU/Linux, kali ini kita akan berkenalan dengan R. R adalah aplikasi statistik di GNU/Linux. Dukungan dokumentasi untuk R kelihatannya lebih baik dari pada PSPP. Selain itu penggunanya juga sangat banyak, terlihat di forumnya yang cukup ramai. R juga ada versi Windows-nya sehingga pengguna Windows bisa juga menggunakannya.

Untuk mendapatkan R, arahkan penjelajah Anda ke http://www.r-project.org/. Unduh R versi terbaru yaitu R-2.5.1.tar.gz.

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Salah satu kendala bagi saya untuk bermigrasi total ke GNU/Linux adalah ketergantungan saya dengan SPSS. Aplikasi statistik di GNU/Linux sepertinya memang masih kalah perkembangannya dibanding aplikasi lain seperti pengolah kata ataupun aplikasi grafis. Di GNU/Linux aplikasi statistik yang cukup adalah R, PSPP dan Stata.

Artikel kali ini merupakan perkenalan kita dengan PSPP. Nama PSPP pastilah agak sedikit aneh, memang namanya adalah plesetan dari aplikasi SPSS dibawah Windows. Tidak begitu jelas singkatan dari apa PSPP ini, namun di situsnya ada beberapa kemungkinan singkatan yaitu:
- Perfect Statistics Professionally Presented
- Probabilities Sometimes Prevent Problems
- People Should Prefer PSPP
Anda bisa mengarang sendiri kepanjangan dari akronim PSPP, misalnya: Program Statistik Paling Penting .

Keunggulan PSPP dibanding aplikasi statistik lainnya di GNU/Linux adalah dukungan terhadap SPSS Syntax. Hampir semua perintah syntax SPSS bisa dikenali PSPP. Untuk yang sudah mengenal SPSS syntax pastinya ini menjajinkan kemudahan karena tidak perlu lagi belajar perintah-perintah baru seperti pada aplikasi R.

Pertama unduh PSPP di ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/pspp/. Selanjutnya untuk proses pemasangan lakukan perintah:

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Sending students to studying abroad has been the most prevalent approach in internationalisation of higher education. Having international experience is considered as beneficially for students and graduates by many researchers in higher education. Most of them agreed that studying abroad have a positive impact on student life. The benefit of study abroad usually analysed in five spheres: academic achievement, foreign language proficiency, cultural enrichment, personal development and professional impact.

Foreign Language Proficiency
One of the leading motivations to study abroad is to have better foreign language proficiency. The improvement of language proficiency generally assumed to be the main consequence of studying abroad. Student reported that upon return they felt enhancement in language proficiency of the host country, in everyday context as well as in academic context. Obviously the language of the host country and the language use in the instruction must be taking in to account. For example: If you study in German but the language of instruction is in English, obviously your German proficiency will not improve much.

Cultural Enrichment
Study abroad provides direct opportunity to learn other culture. The most obvious impact for this is a better understanding of the conditions in other countries. This experience will stimulates some reflection about ones own culture and even reconsideration of values in general. Improved understanding of political rationales and tolerance for different views is just some of the examples of the result. Ones also will have more experience in comparing their own countries and the host country where they study. They will learn how to be proud of their home country and in the same time learn to accept the deficiency of their home country compared to the host country.

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A little bit shock and excited when I read my rss subscription for BBC today. “Child star wins university place” that is the title of BBC article on March, the youngest (9) ever student to enroll in a university in Hong Kong. He is enrolled in HKBU (Hong Kong Baptist University). After reading his full name, March Tian Boedihardjo, I knew that he is from Indonesia . Well, Boediharjo is for sure a Javanese name.

Maybe it is to naive to say that he is an Indonesian child prodigy since he and his family now live in Hong Kong. I also don’t know whether they still have Indonesian nationality or not. However I just feel happy to hear that every media refers him as “Indonesian-Chinese boy” followed by a lot of compliments. For just a moment I want to forget about how terrible education management in Indonesia. Forget about the high tuition fees, forget about the low teacher salary, forget about the terrible infrastructure… forget everything for just a moment and enjoy the good news...

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