Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / June 2007

I am running multiple regression analyses over several dozen dependent
variables and each output table comes with an automatically generated
title "Regression". I was wondering if there was a way of setting up
the analysis to generate a personalized title automatically, as

We want to replace all cases of a variable over the 97.5% and under
the 2.5% border with the values corresponding to this two limits.
Unfortunately we don't know how.
Has anyone a clue how to do this with syntax?

Hi! I have one more question,
As I mentioned in my last question, I'm running a multiple regression
over 36 different dependent variables in the data set, and I was
wondering if there was a way of setting up SPSS to run each analysis

I want to make sure I'm doing this properly.
We surveyed a convenience sample of family medicine medical students
(n = 53 Females, n = 51 Males).
We know from national statistics that the population of family

my data are organised as such, country, state, city etc.
I wan't to create a crosstab with the following structure: rows (a
selected variable)
collums: % of the city, % of the state, % of the country. When i've

Can anyone please let me know of how does SPSS compute Median for
weighted data?
I.e, there will be two colums, one with the numbers and the next
column will have it's weight. How does SPSS compute it's median?

i'm new in spss, i use it with mac and mainly use the menu driven...
i want to fit generalized linear models with a poisson error structure
and logaruthmic link function,
how do i do that?

This should be simple.
I would like to know how to create a relative frequency histogram in SPSS.
Using syntax, the command to create a frequency histogram is /HISTOGRAM
NORMAL.

is there any possibility to include python in spss versions prior to
14???.
flo

Is there a simple way within SPSS to create a relative
frequency histogram.
Thanks,
Inf.

I would like to be able to type in a block of data into the SPSS data
editor and have that be read as a matrix.
I understand how to use the syntax editor to generate a matrix, but
using the data editor instead of the syntax editor would be much more

It would be great if anyone could help me out with the following:
I have a series of contact dates such as
Jan02  May02  July02  Aug02
I would eventually like to convert this into binary coding month-by-

I am trying to conduct White's test in SPSS using the instructions in
http://pages.infinit.net/rlevesqu/Tutorials/HeteroscedasticityTestingAndCorr
ectingInSPSS.zip
To this end, I have the following syntax:

I want to open 120 text file's in to 1 spss file. I can do it by opening
each text file, save it, and then merge them. Is there an easier solution?
Text files look like this (names of the files differ only in the last part):
test1.txt

I have a data set which has responses in rank order. That is,
respondents have ranked 14 items in a list (say leadership qualities)
according to their imporantance to a certain function. I have two
quaries: