Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / August 2004

I hope I don't stress this usergroup too much with my questions, but I need
to build on the help of you experts. This is a simple question:
How can I combine a binary variable with an ordinal variable for a logit
regression (lets assume a simple binary logit regression for this ...

I need urgent help (I am currently writing my final diploma thesis and I
have only 2 weeks left) with the following task:
How can I perform a Multinomial Logit Regression with SPSS 11.0 where the
dependent variable are proportions?

I have a small data set consisting of 13 percents of 'approval rating'
over six years.  Which SPSS procedure do I use to see if there has
been a significant change in percent approval over time?
I do not have the original data from these 13 surveys (all with

I downloaded the ExportTablesToSingleExcelSheetV4.sbs
from http://pages.infinit.net/rlevesqu/SampleScripts.htm#ImportExport
bur now I want to add a XL macro to it that I created and want this
macro run before any data is pasted into the Excel sheet.  It basically

Hello,
I have a situation and would love if any knowledgable SPSS guru could
tell me if it is possible or point me in the right direction.
I have 2 SPSS documents both of the format.

I have downloaded the trial (but limited period) version of SPSS a
home.
Im reasonably proficient in excel and found lots of helpful sites for
Excel from Microsoft newsgroups and hence want to know whether there

I have a dependent variable and 3 categorical independent variables
(IV) (among others). I am trying to test for interaction effects among
the 3 categorical IVs in SPSS. I would like to have output that gives
significance and other statistics for highIV1*highIV2, highIV1*LowIV2,

When I installed 12.0.1 over my previous version (9) and tried to run
it, I got the following error:
"SPSS 12.0.1 for Windows has been installed on this computer but
cannot be configured for the current user.  You may have to run the

Is it possible to read the SPSS news messages from outlook express. I
use outlook for reading Microsoft newsgroups and tried to configure
this one by mentioning server name as comp.soft-sys.stat.spss but Im
getting a meesage that server could not be found. Could anybody please

SPSS v10 for Windows
I have a datafile (students) with the following categorical data:
Variable        Possible Values
========        ===============

I have two date variables in yyyyq format. They are wage_qtr and
begin_qtr. Below is an example.
Unique client id#     begin_qtr     wage_qtr     flag_variable
1                       20013         20013         0

I would like to know if it is possible to do a contrast analysis with
(e.g.) a 2x2 mixed ANOVA. My expected result is:
                experiment    control
young children      10           5

i got some data in database like this:
user_id     quest        answer
------------------------------
1               1             0

We used SPSSv12-for-Windows to convert our SPSS .SAV data set into a SAS
v6-for-UNIX data set (.ssd01) but we can't get our SAS v8.2 UNIX program to
recognize/read the data. It may be a problem pointing to the data, or in the
SAS syntax.  Can anyone assist?  Thanx in advance.

I'm running SPSS 11.0.1 on a Mac G4, OS X 10.3.5 but it is very slow.
Has any one an idea what could solve this problem?
Armin