Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / March 2005

I'm hoping one of the experts here can help me.  I've just run a series
of scatterplots (around 50), and I want all of them to share certain
characteristics.
For example, I would like each to have a linear fit line, a y axis

There seems to be a major bug in spss 13. I cannot get the legend to
show the marker symbols for the lines, it just shows the colour, which
if I am printing in black and white is useless.
Does anyone know a fix?

This is my first go at a macro and I am really struggling. Any help
most appreciated!
I have a set of results taken at variable times (test1, test2,
test3...test26). Not all subjects had a test taken each time. An

Hello to all the experts,
I am trying to match a very very large file that I have between
schizophrenics and non-schizophrenics based on sex and date of birth.
I got to the point in which I have a very large file and to each of my

I am doing a summary statistic on a data set. The output file does not
display the mean and median values . It shows the minimum and maximum. What
it shows are some ******  ****** values. It reminds me of excel spreadsheet
whenever the column is too small and needs to be widened. ...

I have only recently been working with SPSS, and I recently updated from
11.0.1 to 12.0.2. It has some very nice new features, at least I think
they're new, like MVA, and some other nice details, like the wheel on the
mouse actually scrolls the data page.

I got this message when i did a nonlinear regression. I am using SPSS
13.0
Undefined error #612 - Cannot open text file "C:\Program
Files\SPSS\en\windows\spss.err": No such file or directory¬

I am trying to collect some demographic data from a trade area-this includes
several communities or zip codes. What is the best way to select a variable
for addresses? Is it better to use zip codes as variables? That's going to
be a lot of variables. How can I make this more ...

Hi All --
I am just learning to use the SPSS mixed model procedure, so I have
been running the same models in SAS and SPSS to familiarize myself with
the syntax, and I have run into a problem.  The initial estimates in

I used to do data manipulation (and still do) with Minitab with session
commands and macros which I find usefule and easy ro build up. My
knowledge regarding SPSS-commands is poor.
A simple macro like:

Here is a brain teaser sure to challenge SPSS wizards!
I'm trying to read in an ASCII data set that contains test results for
children. Each case (one child) contains data from as many as 18 test
forms (some cases have less than 18). Each test form is represented as

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I am suppose to use negative binomial regression to model my
dissertation data.  Does anyone know (1) if SPSS does negative binomial
regression and (2) what the programming statements are to do it?  I
have no familiarity with this technique and am not having much luck

Seems like everyone knows that answer to this but me.....does xsave
save a datafile to memory, sort of like a recordset in VB or VBA? If
not, what are it's advantages over a traditional SAVE command. Thanks
for your help.

The problem that I have is that I would like to compare means of two
groups, however, I do not have the
actual data but only the frequency (number of people in age group). I
have the mean and the standard deviation.