Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / December 2004

HI. I am new and really am clueless about research and statistics. I
hope this group can give me some help. My first question is about chi
square analysis. Can you do a chi square analysis when you have unequal
groups?

Decile analysis - Can SPSS do this? Can some enlighten me on this procedure?
Thank you.
Derrick

I'm trying to learn how to use syntax. I know the basics but
now I want to learn about (in SAS language) arrays, do-loops ...
Books, websites ...?
Grateful for your advice

I'm trying to check the inter-rater-reliability of just two raters using
SPSS. The items rated are of ordinal scale (0=never .. 3=always) - which
coefficent shows the irr best? Someone told me kendalls tau-b would do best
for ordinal data, but I'd like to "check" this before ...

I've got one of those tabling questions for the pros out there...
I've got 11 variables, all on a 1-5 response scale. I have been trying
to construct a table with the frequency and percent for each category
(categories 1-5 as the columns) for each variable (variables 1-11 as the

What "dumb, dumb" thing I am doing wrong here?
Define !DISVARS() CQ35_33, CQ35_34, CQ35_24, CQ35_10, CQ35_18, CQ35_16,
CQ35_30, CQ35_29, CQ35_11, CQ35_8,
              CQ35_25, CQ35_36, CQ35_6,  CQ35_14, CQ35_4,  CQ35_1,

I need to code for missing data in a date field. I have tinkered around
and not found away to do it. All I can come up with is turning the
various date fields into numberics. Does someone else have a different
way of doing it?

I am trying to chart some box plots with SPSS 13.  The charting is not
a problem but what I would like to have is the "n of cases" at the
base of each boxplot.  IT is possible to do this in 11.5 but I cannot
do it in 12 or 13.  Can anyone help

I have a student version of SPSS v11.
The manual that comes with that is not very big and I cannot
find the term covariate in the index.
Someone asked a question here about covariates a fair while

Hi List,
I have a unique date variable for each Id, formatted as dmy (edate). Now
I want to build cohorts from these dates, e.g.
11.12.03 to 11.01.04 = cohort 1

I am doing a split group correlation analysis. Number of variables is
nearly 350. The number of cases are over 6000. Split file active.
I am running the analysis on a 2.4G Hz 256Meg Ram computer. The analysis
has been running for over four hours. Based on task manager info, SPSS ...

I am new to SPSS.  I am using version 11.0.  Is there a way to import a text
file which contains the variable definitions?  I was hoping for something
like the import of the data but for the variable definitions
Thanks for any leads

I'm working on a project for my Ph.D. and I'm kind of in a strange
situation. As a state employee I have access to the data I need but it
has social security numbers in it and as a private citizen working on
this project for school I can't see ssn's. So someone else in my office

I've been trying to figure out how to do this for 2 days - but there's
probably an easy solution.  I have data where I'm measuring an attitude
and my thesis supervisor wants me to determine the differences between
a variety of groups (one is male/female) but within a different group

I've been trying to figure out how to do this for 2 days - but there's
probably an easy solution.  I have data where I'm measuring an attitude
and my thesis supervisor wants me to determine the differences between
a variety of groups (one is male/female) but within a different group