Math Forum / Math Software / SPSS / September 2009

I am trying to generate crosstabs with upper and lower boundaries for
a 95% CI.  I have complex samples, and thought I should use CSPLAN
ANALYSIS.
I am not drawing a sample, the sampe was an RDD sample of a county

I am a rookie in using SPSS. I have one question about how to count
the specific value in multiple fields.
For example,
ID Enter1   Exit1      Loc1       Length1    Enter2   Exit2

I'm setting up a psycholinguistic experiment using the method of
paired comparisons. Participants will choose between two words/
entities, or signal 'no difference', based on a specific attribute.
The design is OK (I think) but I am struggling (as ever) to figure out

I am new to this group, and will appreciate any help with respect to
my ques.
I am doing a case-control study to compare the costs of women with
breast cancer to those of women without breast cancer. I want to do an

Trying to search this group for "SQL" turns up nothing!
Is there a problem with this newsgroup's indexing?

I need to build a dataset for the class I am teaching.  I have
generated all the usual background variables, age, gender, etc.  What
I would like to do now is build in some relationships.  That's easy
enough with a grouping variable but what about correlations?   For

I have a data set of individual records allocated by State, e.g.,
Alabama=1, Alaska=2, etc. and I'd like to write a macro which would
for instance, extract Alabama and do a frequency on gender, then
extract Alaska and do a frequency on gender, etc.  The part I don't

I have carried out PLS (Partial Least Square) procedures and couldn't
find the p-values for the PLS model and its predictor variables from
the SPSS output. What should I do next to confirm if my results are
significant (i.e. whether the overall model as well as which

Hello, I have some syntax that uses the Sample command to randomly
pull exactly  8 cases from a variable number of cases. Currently, I
have to look at the data file I'm working with to learn how many cases
exist and then manually put that number in the select command (and I

I have a research question. I know this may not be relevant here but
just in case somebody has some ideas on this. I'm thinking of doing a
survey study in schools. I want to survey both principals and teachers
and compare their responses to the survey. The problem that I run into

Does anyone here have any knowledge of the spsspivottable.Display
command for R programs in SPSS?
An existing R program finishes with the following command that returns
the results (a polychoric correlation) to a SPSS pivot table:

Any help will be highly appreciated.
We plan to do the following ANCOVA model.
       Dependent variable:    glucose at end of study;
       Factors:                     treatment (A or B)

Any help will be appreciated greatly.
Two treatements, A & B.
With A, we hope, blood pressure will be reduced more, potassium will
be reducced less, glucose

Is it possible to use a "FOR EACH (file in diretory) NEXT"  like statement
in SPSS syntax, to open sequentially a number of files located in a
directory?
In fact what I want to do is

We recently upgraded to SPSS 17 and have been having some odd issues,
such as messed up freq. tables
We are wondering if we should go to SPSS 16?
What have other users been saying abotu SPSS 17 vs SPSS 16?