SPSS transformations between DO IF … and END IF are applied only to cases (rows of data) that satisfy one or more conditions. In many cases, IF is a faster way to accomplish the same results. SPSS Do If Example Say we’d like to convert people’s monthly income into income classes. We may want to use different cut […]
Among the very best SPSS practices is running histograms over your metric variables. Doing so is a super fast way to detect problems such as extreme values and gain a lot of insight into your data. This tutorial quickly walks you through using bank_clean.sav, part of which is shown below. Option 1: FREQUENCIES without Frequency Tables If you’re running […]
SPSS COMPUTE command sets the data values for (possibly new) numeric variables and string variables. These values are usually a function (such as MEAN, SUM or something more advanced) of other variables. This tutorial walks you through doing just that. We’ll use hospital.sav,a screenshot of which is shown below. Before proceeding, we’ll first set 6 as a user missing value for the last 5 […]
A histogram is a chart that shows frequencies for equal width intervals of values of a metric variable. Histogram – Example A company wants to know how monthly salaries are distributed over 1,110 employees having operational, middle or higher management level jobs. The screenshot below shows what their raw data look like. Since these salaries […]
