Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / October 2006

I am continuously revising a data mining model, by including several
economic variables to individual records. In order to introduce a new
variable, i've had to join the Microsoft Access tables together and
then import the query in SPSS. The resulting .sav file is then used for

I am looking for more information on how the Standard Error is computed
in the ROC graph modelule in SPSS. Is their someone who can help me on
this subject or who can pass me by a reference to a Paper in which it
is described?

I was trying to write a macro to open files by passing the file names
as a token and I tried the following syntax but it didn't work.
Define fsdts1 (!POS !CHAREND ('/')).
!DO !fsds !IN (!1).

hi
there any one who can help me do this favour thank you

I have asked this question many times to no avail.
What happens when you are using logistic regression and have many,
focused independant variables.  When you run the model according to the
methodologies found in many of the textbooks, it doesn't work.  Their

Hi comp.soft-sys.stat.spss,
Using the 'compute' command I can calculate the mean of a row(s) and
the mean will be put in a new column as a new variable. Is there anyway
to calculate the mean of a column(s) and have the mean appear in a new

I have a string variable "radio station" with several case and
description options but all meaning the same radio station. I want to
convert this in to a numeric variable and then use the order to
"recode". I think, for clarity, it will be better to use this numeric

Hello all, I am a graduate assistant working on a research study and
have come to a interesting predicament.  On serveral of our cases we
are missing data, we assigned the value -9 in a variable to denote it
as missing, and labeled it as such in the Missing values in SPSS.  I am

Folks
When I export an SPSS (13 or 14) spo file to Excel it usually works
but sometimes the Excel file continually crashes. I downloaded the
patch to get me to 14.02 and no change.

Say I have about 50 CTables, each appropriately titled, and I export
them to PDF.  I get a nice PDF document, but the navigation pane is
collapsed to the top level, so I get 50 instances of the word, "Table,"
which is not helpful at all.

I got this result in SPSS. What are the reasons that this might happen?
Thank you.
Esther

Hello all! I am a graduate assistant working on a research study and
have come to an interesting predicament.  Several cases are missing
several variables, I want to be able to use a SELECT IF command to only
select the cases that are missing that variable.  The variables contain

Any one have syntax for calculation of BMI percentiles by gender.  I
have the BMI for all of my subjects but it is just the raw score and
not gender adjusted percentiles.
Mcap

Hi, I have an spss database with about 400 variables, all called
different names. i.e. they are not in order like v1... v400, they are
called name, blood group, hair colour, etc. I want to rename them to be
called v1....v400.

I've encountered a strange syntax problem and wondered if anybody had any
insights about its origin.
I used the "read data file" option to creat a TPF file that read a text
dataset into SPSS. There is a 1 column variable in the first column of the