Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / August 2005

I'm carrying out an ordinal logistic regression, and need to know how
to establish the relative importance of the independent variables. They
are measured on slightly different scales so I'm sure it's not as easy
as looking at the individual parameter estimates. Any help greatly

I was wondering if somebody could please help me write the syntax for
the following problem:
I would like to find the mean of var2 for every subject in var1, so for
subject 1, I want to find out the average of the records in var2 and

Hi everybody out there generally loving stats and particularly using
SPSS,
I'm trying to test the sphericity assumption for a within-ss ANOVA with
3 factors (each 2 levels) using SPSS. Now, the output shows that

my problem concerns the following:
- I've got two IVs: IV 1: expectations about the quality of an
instructional medium (2 levels: positive vs. negative) and IV 2:
relevance of the topic for the student (3 levels: low vs. moderate vs.

Is it possible to perform a calculation on selected data without losing all
the non-selected data? I'd been so careful not to save the file since I knew
that the Select command wipes out the non-selected data before saving, but
to my horror I recently deleted half my data before ...

could anyone please help me with this:
I've got a variable with different records that repeat and I want to
create an indicator variable that marks each change in the record
variable. Here is an example:

Back in the days of SPSS 8, the Analysis-Regression-Curve Fitting
procedure had a nice list of each of the 11 different curve functions.
Am I right in believing that this is no longer available in SPSS 11.5,
12 or 13? How can I get a hold of the list of functions used by SPSS

I need to calculate the age-specific force of infection for the sample
of pertussis data. What is the exact formula for calculation and in
which software can I do it?
My data file is in SPSS12.

I need to find either a statistician or someone with a degree in
econometrics.  This person is needed in a health insurance environment
to program advanced forecasting models in SAS, so they need to know SAS
base, STAT, ETS and Macros as well as ARIMA.

For tables that I run in SPSS I have made a customized table look. Also
where and when necessary I run the Make totals bold script. The output
looks very good in SPSS Output. Now, how can I prevent tables
properties being lost when exporting to MS Word?

I would like to import an access table in SPSS and transform
automatically all empty fields by a code (like 999 f.e.)
When you make a request to import it, its possible to ask him (SPSS
12.0) to labelize all the different answers possible in each variable

I want to use SPSS to estimate a sigmoidal curve. I see that among the
options are "s-curve" and "logistic curve". I was under the impression
these were the same thing. Could somebody explain the difference, or at
least how SPSS treats them as different?

I'm a novice in writing syntax and macros, but am learning more and
more every day. I currently have a macro which gets several files from
different locations and creates an aggregate file for each. My question
is this: How can I set it up so that each aggregate file gets saved

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Hi~ Spsser..
I made a syntax like below..
but when i run this program.. i notice A1 A2 is misplaced..
I mean A1,A2 is placed below subtotalA but it is placed subtotalB