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 offers three ways for analyzing subsets of cases. After running SPLIT FILE, output tables and charts will show results for subsets of cases separately. Second, you can temporarily FILTER out cases you’d like to exclude from analysis as shown in the screenshot. Third, you can permanently remove cases from your data with SELECT IF. Analyzing Subsets of Cases SPSS FILTER […]
Summary SPSS RANK can be used to create a variable holding the rank numbers of the values of some other variable. RANK is also used for discretizing continuous variables into ntile groups. This tutorial walks you through the main options along with some real world examples. Result of first RANK syntax example 1. SPSS Rank Basic Example Running the syntax below first creates […]
