Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / July 2005

The syntax below works, although SPSS gives me an error message (see
below). Should I be concerned?
Also, how do I label the new variables:
q39b_1m  'Senior management'

I need to know how to create sub groups in spss to be able to plot the
best fit line to sub groups rather than to total ....
I need a sub group to point to var1 and another sub group to point to
var2

I have more than 150 variables with which I want to do a couple of
things...I want to create(with recodingRECODE vard.1  vard.2  vard.3
vard.4  vard.5(7=1)  (6=2)  (5=3)  (8=3)  (9=4)  (SYSMIS=SYSMIS)  (1
thru 4=1)  INTO vard.1new  vard.2new  vard.3new  vard.4new  vard.5new

I have a string variable that I want to work with in syntax, but I want to
do numeric calculations. Most of the time, the field is a valid number, but
due to data input errors, soemtimes its not a valid number.
Is there someway, in syntax that I can check to see if the the field

This is part of a stata syntax program from
http://stokes.chop.edu/web/stettler/
to generate variables  for obesity (ob, corresponding to an adult BMI >
30) and overweight (ow, corresponding to an adult BMI > 25), based on

In SPSS 10, I'm producing frequency tables based on a multiple select
question with 15 options and I wish to run it several times comparing
respondents based on city. I'm doing it this way (rather than using
cross-tabs) because I want to get data that's easy to paste into

I have a large dataset containing  unevenly sized groups (identified by
a single variable).
I would like to match the groups by some demographic variables (e.g.,
sex) etc., removing unmatched cases.

Is there a method of calculating Rwg (interrater agreement) in SPSS?
I know ICCs (1-4) are obtainable through ANOVA and/or reliability, but i
haven't found Rwg's.
Thanks,

I have data with ID's in columns 1-100. Column 101 has
some info I don't want to overwrite.  I wish to duplicate
the ID numbers in columns 102-201.  Anyone know some
syntax that will do this?

How do I in spss v 13 convert variable1 by applying inverse log and
putting the resulting value in variable 2?

I am running a crosstabs procedure in SPSS with gender in rows against
a categorical variable, BMI percentiles, with 4 levels.  Is there a way
to get standard error and confidence intervals in the rows?  In SUDAAN,
I can do this by serow and lowrow uprow syntax.

I searched the archives but couldn't find an answer to my question,
so here goes.
I wonder if someone could help me with the syntax I should run in SPSS
10 to address the following two items:

I am new to SPSS. So could anyone tell me how to compare and test
correlated correlations for both overlapping and non overlapping
situations in SPSS 13. I know comparing independent correlations can be
done easily, but what i am interested is in calculating Person Filon,

I am wanting to compare genetic expression values at two time points using a
non-paramteric procedure.  This is straightforward for a few comparisons,
but unfortunately I need to do this for several thousand genes! What I would
appreciate is guidance on scaling up the analysis in ...

I was wondering if somebody could please help me figure out the
following:
I've got one variable var1 and would like to create var2 - basicially a
variable that would number the cases in var1 in ascending order and