Definition SPSS’ ANY is used to compare one value to a set of other values. SPSS Any – Basics ANY(a,b,c[,d…]) checks whether a is equal to any of the b, c[,d…]. Note that the first value is compared to the second through the last values. Each of these can either be a constant (“6”) or a variable (“v1”) over respondents. SPSS Any – Examples Suppose […]
Sampling is at the very core of statistical tests: drawing conclusions on research populations based on (small) samples from those populations. Basically all statistical tests quietly assume that the data you’re analyzing are a simple random sample from your population. This assumption being ignored is the very reason why political polls are often widely off and research findings can’t be […]
COMPUTE v2 = RANGE(V1,2,4). SPSS RANGE Function Result Summary SPSS’ RANGE function is used to evaluate whether or not values are within a given range. Test values equal to the lower or upper boundary are also within the given range. Run the syntax below for a quick demonstration. SPSS Range Syntax Example *1. Create couple of cases. data list free/v1(f1). begin […]
Definition SPSS Insert is a command for running syntax files from within another syntax file. This may help keeping your syntax organized. SPSS Insert Command – Why Use It? Executing all of your commands from syntax may be the single best practice for working with SPSS. One of the reasons is that you can correct steps early […]
Definition SPSS REPLACE replaces a substring in a string by a different (possibly empty) substring. SPSS Replace – Removing Spaces URLs are created from “title” by using REPLACE. The syntax below demonstrates how to do this. We have a dataset holding the titles of web pages and we’d like to convert these to URLs. For one thing, we don’t like spaces in […]
This tutorial shows how to compute means over both variables and cases in a simple but solid way. We encourage you follow along by downloading and opening restaurant.sav, part of which is shown below. Quick Data Check Before computing anything whatsoever, we always need to know what’s in our data in the first place. Skipping this […]
SPSS FREQUENCIES command can be used for much more than frequency tables; it’s also the easiest way to obtain basic charts such as histograms and bar charts. On top of that, it provides us with percentiles and some other statistics. Plenty of reasons for taking a closer look at this ubiquitous SPSS command. We’ll use employees.sav throughout […]
