Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / July 2008

First post here and I'll admit that I'm very new to SPSS.
I'm trying to run a simple cross tabs inside a macro and then have
some of the chi square test results output using the OMS.
I've gotten the macro to work but am unsure about how to output only a

I recently upgraded to SPSS 16 (and installed the patches), but I am
having a problem when trying to copy value labels between two open
files. I go to the particular cell that contains the labels, use Cntrl
+C and try to paste into the new file, but nothing happens. I'm

I have a dataset with binomial (yes/no) face validity ratings of 54
self-report scale items by 19 "expert" raters (i.e., each rating is a
"1" when an expert thinks the item measures the scale's construct and
"0" when an expert believes the item does not measure the construct).

Hi, I've been using SQL for years but am still relatively new to
SPSS.  Is there any way to efficiently manipulate SPSS data sets with
SQL commands instead of SPSS' native language? - Doing this while
running Python would be even better.  I did some searches, and every

I want to create a "prediction" equation using Linear Regression.
Y = bo+b1x1+b2x2
However, some participants responded more than once, resulting in
potentially non-independent observations...

How can i add 1000 SPSS FILES (each file contains just one number) so
that i will end up with one SPSS file having one column and 1000 rows?
A.A.A

iF I HAVE THE FOLLOWING SPSS SYNTAX:
*recoding independent variable
********************************.
recode @1 @2 (lowest thru -1.000001 =1) (-1 thru -0.000001 =2)  (0

If a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test rejects the null for both Poisson and
Uniform and I assume that the data really represent two populations,
how can I decide where to split up the sample? I'm guessing I just
need to run t-tests on different split using trial and error, but it

Help!
I would like to know what test i need to used in Spss.
I have my measured variable in one column, the Year of sampling in the
next column, & four further columns of data.

I'm trying to convert a numeric variable that is formatted (N9) to a
string variable. It is an SSN variable and I have to convert it to a
string to match to another dataset that has SSN as a string variable
with leading zeros. I can manually change the data type to string and

I am brand new to OMS.  I am trying to save an output to a text file
which I am able to do, however I am getting alot of stuff with it,
like the syntax, date...I just want the tables I ran and nothing
else.  Any ideas?

Hello, I'm having some trouble trying to make a bar graph, it seems
simple but I can't get it done.
What I want is a graph in which I can compare the percentage of one
objective over three years (% of times being mentioned in each year).

Is there anyone know how to do trend analysis using chi-square?
Currently, I am using SAS 9.0. Could you give some SAS code? Thanks.

I am new to spss, so this may be a simple question, but I appreciate
if somenone answers it.
I want to compute confidence interval for the mean of a variable, for
which only mean, standard deviation and sample size are given, but the

Hi, I'm fairly new to SPSS so please bear with me...
I have this code:
DO IF  ((Gender=1) AND (EstAge <18)).
RECODE varana (0 thru 99=1) (99.0001 thru hi=2) INTO varana_n.