[R] Diverging results with SPSS

[Peter Dalgaard]

"Celso Barros" <celso.barros at gmail.com> writes:

> Dear List,
> 
> I apologize in advance if this is silly. I tried to replicate an analysis I
> did previously in SPSS using R, and was surprised to find different results.
> 
> 
> So my question is: shouldn't the following SPSS syntax
> 
> 
> REGRESSION
> 
> DEPENDENT INC89
> 
> /METHOD=ENTER hiedyrs experien SE93rec.
> 
> Yeld the same results of the following R command
> 
> modelB<-lm(INC89~HIEDYRS+EXPERIEN+SE93REC)

Possibly, if all variables are quantitative.

What are the differences that you see?
 
> 
> I assume the is some difference in some default options.Or maybe it was a
> problem when the data was imported. After using the read.spss in the foreign
> package, I got the following warning message:
> 
> Unrecognized record type 7, subtype 16 encountered in system file

You might check whether your variables have the same summary
statistics in both systems.
 
> Thanks in advance for the help and apologies for the trouble,
> 
> 
> Celso
> 
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