Summary SPSS commands come in three basic types: procedures, transformations and other commands. Understanding this distinction will allow you to get things done in SPSS faster and more efficiently. SPSS Command Types Diagram SPSS Transformations As shown in the figure, the first question is when a command is executed. Some SPSS commands are not carried out […]
SPSS Unicode mode is a setting which implies that all text is encoded as UTF-8 (Unicode Tranformation Format – 8 bit). Note that this tutorial leans substantively on Unicode. SPSS Unicode Mode – What and Why Up to version 15, all character encoding in SPSS was based on code pages. SPSS using code pages is now […]
A best practice in SPSS is to open and save all files with syntax. Like so, it can be easily seen which syntax was run on which data. One could use the syntax generated by Paste for this but there’s a much shorter and better option. Disadvantages of the Default Syntax Each time you open a data file from […]
