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Re: entering data into PSPP
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Ben Pfaff |
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Re: entering data into PSPP |
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Thu, 02 Feb 2006 16:07:56 -0800 |
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Ryan Mann <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello. I'm a new PSPP user and I'm having a hard time getting started.
> Particularly, I'm having a hard time understanding the "data list"
> command since the manual doesn't give examples.
Yes, we could really use a "getting started" guide, and some
examples. PSPP was originally targeted at existing users of SPSS
but we do seem to getting some new users who have never used
SPSS.
> From reading the manual I got that you would start out with a
> data list command, begin data. whatever_data then end data.
That's typical.
> However, I don't understand the format of the data list
> command. Let's say I have two groups of scores. One for
> tigers and another for other cats. For tigers I have the
> following scores: 9 24 32 11 19 For the other cats: 24 24 32 48
> Can somebody give me an example of how I would enter this data?
You'd have to decide how to distinguish the groups. I suspect
you'd have two variables: "animals" and "score", and you'd want a
syntax file that looks something like this:
data list /animal 1-5(a) score 7-8.
begin data.
tiger 9
tiger 24
tiger 32
tiger 11
tiger 19
other 24
other 24
other 32
other 48
end data.
Then you could get, say, descriptive statistics on each group
like so:
split file by animal.
descriptives score.
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Ben Pfaff
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