Monday, August 19, 2013

Mesir oh bumi anbiya

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

When someone asks how “writing” is going:


Monday, August 12, 2013

Factor analysis

It was very difficult for me to understand what is factor analysis. Then I read about one simple non-technical analogy. A mother sees a shapes under a blanket. Then the shapes moves in unison . It can be concluded that there is single 'thing' or object under the blanket. Maybe a cat or perhaps a child hiding from his mother.

Technically speaking, a factor analysis is where all the so called 'thing' takes simultaneous movement. We called this correlation.

" It is important when conducting factor analysis that possiblke

Tuesday, August 6, 2013

The latest scam, be extra careful !!!

This one is dangerous. The scammer uses your friend's email and emailed you as if he/she wanted to share documents. Nowadays, it is common to share documents using google drive. Normally, you should click the link and it will direct you to the documents.

Below, is how the scammer manipulate Razimah's email.


To go to the shared files, we normally click "click here".


At this point, I was a bit suspicious, then after I click the gmail....

It was confirmed! This is a new methods for scammers to hijack your gmail accounts. God knows how important is your gmail passwords nowadays (google drive, blog, gmail, android devices etc).

Azminias
ECU Joondalup


SPSS steps - Missing data analysis


Click 'Analyse'
Click 'Missing value analysis'

In 'Missing value analysis' window

Transfer ID (if you have one) to 'Case Labels'
Then, transfer all your variables to 'Quantitative variables'
Then, if applicable, transfer all variables that considered as categorical to 'Categorical variables' 
Then click 'Pattern'

In 'Missing value analysis: Patterns' window

In Display 

Tick 'Tabulated cases....'
Set to 5% in 'Omit patterns with less than .... % of cases'
Tick 'Sort variables by missing value patern'
Tick 'Cases with missing values, sorted by missing value patterns'
Tick 'Sort variables by missing value pattern
Tick 'All cases, optionally sorted by selected variable'
In Variables, select all and send to 'Additional Information for'
Click 'Continue'

In 'Missing value analysis' window

Click 'Descriptive'
Click "t Tests"
Click 'Include probabilities in table
Click 'Crosstabulations of categorical and indicator variables
Click 'Continue'

In 'Missing value analysis' window
In Estimation 

Click 'Listwise'
Click 'Pairwise'
Click 'EM'
Click 'Regression'

Then Click 'Variables' button
In Missing value analysis: Variable 
Make sure 'Use all quantitative variables' is ticked
Click 'Continue'

Click 'EM' button
In Missing value analysis: EM 
Distribution 'Normal'
Maximum iteration type '100'
Click 'Continue'

Click 'Regression' button
In Missing value analysis: Regression
Click 'Residuals'
Click 'Maximum number of predictors', then type '3'
Click 'Continue'

Finally click 'OK'

Missing Data Analysis

SPSS - Missing Data Analysis [1/3]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysJvhxObkIk


SPSS - Missing Data Analysis [2/3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYOq3GRaJOA


SPSS - Missing Data Analysis [3/3]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wjLETao1PU

Why is doing a PhD so hard?