CODAP and SPSS Topics
(Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) 

Subtitle:  OA is more than reporting number of people selecting each survey item option.


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Questions about "Ward's Method" in CODAP --

Lesson Learned: Once you eliminate the "clustering" you can eliminate the OA program. (March 2006)  Recounts how OA programs DISAPPEAR after SPSS becomes the primary analysis tool.

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1985 Navy Paper:  Is CODAP Really Necessary? 

Immediately following this presentation a flood a people approached me and asked... "Is it true that SPSS can do everything CODAP does?"  I replied, "Yes, of course -- so can an abacus, but I wouldn't want to see the staff hours required to do it!"

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1987 Navy Paper:  NODAC Recants: SPSS as a Supplement to CODAP, Not a Replacement (Main Paper) PDF
1987 Navy Paper:  NODAC Recants: SPSS as a Supplement to CODAP, Not a Replacement (Slides & Attachments) PDF
Navy view of Teaching the Fine Art of Occupational Analysis (This is FROM the Navy). JPEG
Email Response to Ken Dowrick regarding SPSS vs CODAP

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White Paper about losing AFHRL - Read about how the Canadian OA program was eliminated -- and then re-instated years later with help from AFOMS. (1998) PDF
How Job Structuring Technology took AFOMS CODAP as a basis for "Prospecting" across AFSC boundaries for restructuring projects (1996-2001) PDF
atCODAP for Diverse Civilian and Military Applications and Rapid-Response OA (1987-2006) HTML

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