Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / November 2006

I am running LR.  There are high correlations between some of my
continuous predictors.   The tests for colllinearity are positive.  My
question may be a silly one......what is the difference between
collinearity and confounding.  It seems like they would be the same

We're in the process of analyzing some survey data and need some advice from
the experts.
One of the questions we have asked people to rank their top 3 reasons for
doing something out of a supplied list of about 15 items. Now we would like

Hello.   I am using a multi-stage sample developed by the OECD for the
Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) data - a 41 nation
survey on math science ed.  In its user manual, the OECD explains to
the newbie user (me) that this type of survey requires the use of

Your help on the following matter would be greatly appreciated.
Through the split file command, I generated several multiple line
charts.  My only concern with the charts is the graphed lines produced
on the charts.  SPSS produces colored lines.  Because the document will

Well, I know that a simple ASCII-editor would do the job in a fraction
of a second. However, I would like to do all data editing and analysis
within one environment: SPSS.
I want to replace characters in strings (e.g., ue -> s).

I'd like to print SPSS syntax that includes the file path and name of
the syntax file. Does anyone know how I can automatically add this to
my syntax?
Thanks in advance,

I've been passively browsing the group for a little while and this is
my first post.  I'm somewhat new to the discipline so please forgive me
if i'm asking an obvious question (i tried searching already).
I created a binary logistic regression model using some historical data

I'm having trouble filtering and deleting by dates in SPSS 12.0  I need
to filter/delete about two years worth of data in a five or six year
file.  I've used the following to try to filter all data before 7/9/02,
but it does not work correctly.  It filters out 4/5/2001, but not

I have a HUGE data set and I am trying to transform the data. This
dataset has one subject having multiple rows (let's say 10) due to
having multiple scores on the same instruments at different dates. One
variable is labeled "dates" and it has multiple dates per subject. I

I have this file
http://students.washington.edu/hocp/Gaming_Console_Survey.sps
And I cannot run the script and have correct data into the correct
columns. There are a lot of errors. Could you please help me to point

is there a way to completely remove spss 15 from my hdd? i mean
everything- even the hidden registry settings?

I'm a statistical graduate and I'm looking for a cost for software
SPSS. In particular, I would like to know the costs regarding tools
named Data Entry Builder, Data Entry Station and Data Entry Network
Server.

Can SPSS perform an overlap formual or Z-test for percentages?  In
other words, sig diffences of top 2 boxes?  Thanks.

Hello, i was wondering if somebody could help me out with the following
issue.
If cronbachs alpha is high for a series of numerical variables and i
want to create a scale, is it necessary to report (or even run) a

Could anybody tell me please what might by the SPSS module for
computing a regression in which the independent variable depends on:
- one nonlinear variable
- few categorical variables.