Introduction You may have heard the phrase that “computers only process ones and zeroes”. These are formally referred to as bits. This raises the question how computers represent letters (like Y, e and s). Representing characters using only bits basically involves two steps. First, each letter is represented by a number. Second, each number is represented by […]
When we’re writing about SPSS or statistics in general, we often wonder if our readers really understand all the terminology we use such as variance, histogram or z-scores. For those we don’t, we wrote some background tutorials on such terms. These background tutorials are listed below.Hope you find them helpful! Glossary SPSS TEMPORARY Command Assumption of Equal Intervals – Calculations on […]
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 […]
To display an HTML page correctly, a web browser must know which character set (character encoding) to use. What is Character Encoding? ASCII was the first character encoding standard (also called character set). ASCII defined 128 different alphanumeric characters that could be used on the internet: numbers (0-9), English letters (A-Z), and some special characters like ! […]
