Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / October 2008

To The Group:
Does anyone know if it is possible to use a "Handle" for a variable
name in the same manner as is done with file names using a file
handle?   I have a fairly lengthy program\syntax summing up a variable

Hello, good people!
When doing a linear regression, one can request for 95% confidence
intervals for the regression parameters. Is there any way of obtaining
confidence intervals for alpha values other than 95%? The help file

Apologies if this has been asked/answered, but a student has just
asked me if the Gradpack for the Mac can read "SPSS files" ... I
assumed SAV files, (and have no idea, but she should have no problem
creating portable files and reading those if the Mac will not read a

I’m actually trying to do an adjustment for non-parametric datas
(partial Kendall correlation, or partial spearman) in SPSS 16.0.1 for
windows (with patch 16.0.2.)
Contacting the support from SPSS, they told me that :

I'm trying to analyze data from a mixed model design with 2 between-
subjects factors and 1 within-subjects factor. The study is looking at
the effects of drug treatment and handling on body weight with body
weight measured at 5 different timepoints. I've run the general linear

I have tried, unsuccessfully, to use the following script from
Raynald's website. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong? It doesn't
produce an error message, but it doesn't add the page breaks either.
'To insert a page break before PivotTables whose /TITLE starts with

I have three variables, a binary variable (0/1) and two interval
variables with differing ranges (e.g. 0-6 and 0-8), and I'd like to
compute Cronbach's alpha. I noticed that Cronbach's alpha based on
standardized items (in SPSS) is substantially higher than the raw

Does anyone know if it's possible  to create a stand alone tool to collect questionnairy data and run limited analysis.
I want to use the tool offline on a CD or a USB stick.
Is it possible to create such a tool in SPSS?
If yes, how?

I'm trying to push a macro variable to a string value in python.
The value is defined like this:
define !date()
'081027'

I just want to know the correct syntax in splitting a line that has
greater than 80 characters?  Do I use a + or just "press enter"
whenever there is a break in the command?
For example:

Hej,
I installed the student version of SPSS 16.0, already figured out that
something must be wrong when the size of the installed package was
only 420MB. Then when I tried to open the program I only got two

Can someone explain me how to compute factor scores?
I found formulas in SPSS algorithms but I don't understand them.
Example:
data:

Could anyone tell me how would I convert date (adate10) variable into
string (a8) ? I was able to partition the date into 3 variables as
year, month, and day in numeric form but stuck there.
Ex: 9/10/2007 into "20070910"

My husband is using SPSS to complete several assignments for his real
estate appraisal courses. SPSS is a new component to the program, and
none of his associates know how to use the software. He is looking for
someone to guide him through the assigned questions in relation to

Just started using v17.  In earlier versions, I would open a data file
and then copy and paste the get file statement from the output window
to my syntax file (I have "display commands in the log" turned on).
The get file statement was often split across several lines, and so