Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / July 2009

I need help with the SPSS software, hopefully someone can help me.
I need to do a MDS (Multy Dimensional Scaling) analysis, but I am
having problem with analyzing it with the SPSS.
My data is a not-symmetrical similarities matrix. Is that possible to

This is my first contribution to this group, hope you can help me.
I am doing a study on "Communication Apprehension", however, when I
searched all previous studies, I found them used it as scales, but I
would like to use it as items as well as scales. Is this possible, am

Can anyone guide me how to subset out observations taken after a
period of time from the whole lot of observations using SPSS v15.
Thanks in advance!

Hi. I have data from a clinical trial from which I want to construct a
bar chart.
I have a grouping variable with two categories: treatment A vs.
treatment B.

I'm working with a cohort of patients with localized prostate cancer
and I'm interesting in doing nested case control studies on various
risk factors for cancer specific mortality. I wish to use the
incidence density sampling procedure described in this article " An

I'm trying to analyze some data trends, what I have is 3 specific
times, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd semester, a group of people who have received
an intervention with specific lengths of time spent within each
semester, and student grades at the same three time points.  How do I

In satisfaction survey, i've done the ctable and used Subtotal to get
TOP2BOX.
now in pivot table, i only want to keep the TOP2BOX. I know that we
can hide the category.

I have this chart of age/sex, department/job position of ~10,000
employees of my univ.  it is set up as a crosstab table with Dept/
position/sex in row and age categories in columns... Is there are any
easy way to convert this MATRIX to a Flat format!!! so that I can get

I still think of SPSS program flows in terms of the SAS language,
which makes SPSS at times more challenging than it needs to be. That
said, I am always struggling with using a variable's format as the
analysis value in SPSS.

Help!! I have NIBRS data in .txt files, broken into batches. Of the
ten batches, I need three of them to get the variables I need. Each
batch is in the same order (starts and ends with the same incidents).
The listing of incidents (one per row) is enormous, 2007 has just over

Using SPSS 15.0, I have 53 string variables that have variable
character widths (ranging from 10-118) but the only data these
variables contain is the word "yes".  I want to universally change all
of these variable character widths, using syntax so I don't have to

1. How do I move my data from  Excell to SPSS?
2. In data view there seem to be only 38 lines available - I need 78!
How can I increase the number?

I'm a fresh user to SPSS and this is the first time I deal with
multiple response data.
For one question my respondents were allowed to choose one or more
options (including "none" and "all"). For some reason, instead of the

A few month ago, I found the HIDECOLS python script on devcentral:
http://www.spss.com/devcentral/index.cfm?pg=downloadDet&dId=103
Last week I updated spss to pasw 17.0.2 and now hidecols stopped
working.

I provided someone  a source file of data upon which PCA was run and
they asked which version of SPSS was used.  I am guessing they were
implying that different results could occur with different versions of
SPSS.  I suppose that's possible, has anyone ever encountered this