SPSS video lessons
The statistics department of the Texas A&M university has a great website, were you can watch spss video lessons. At this site you can watch how to split a file or how to make a scatter plot.
6 comments March 31st, 2006 mark
Archive for March, 2006
Question: How to store each subset after splitting a file
Question: Hi all!
After a SPLIT command applied to my file, I would like each generated subset
of data to be saved in a different .sav file.
Is there an easy way to do that using SAVE or XSAVE?
Even if SPSS can manage each subset separately, I did not find how to save
each subset separately.
Do not hesitate if I am not clear enough or if you need more information.
My data is organized as follows:
Source Destination other variable
david Stefan 123
Nico Bruce 213
Nico Stefan 333
Stefan Nico 2
david Stefan 5
Stefan Nico 56
2 comments March 26th, 2006 mark
MicroStrategy and SPSS form alliance.
Software companies MicroStrategy Inc. and SPSS Inc. said on Wednesday they have formed an alliance for business development and cooperative marketing.
The two companies signed an agreement to combine MicroStrategy’s business intelligence technology with SPSS’ predictive analytics software, they said in a statement. No financial details were given.
(source: Reuters)
Add comment March 26th, 2006 mark
How to split a SPSS-file in two or more groups.
Sometimes you want to split your data file in separate groups for analysis
Its a easy thing to do in SPSS. From the menus choose:
Data > Split File
This opens the Split File dialog box.
Select Compare groups or Organize output by groups. The examples following these steps show the differences between these two options.
Select Gender (gender) to split the file into separate groups for these variables. You can use numeric, short string, and long string variables as grouping variables. A separate analysis is performed for each subgroup defined by the grouping variables. If you select multiple grouping variables, the order in which they appear on the Groups Based On list determines the manner in which cases are grouped.
Coding editor with SPSS syntax highlighting
I am also writing webpages, and code (X)HTML and PHP by hand. If you code by hand, any code, and also SPSS syntax code, than it is very usefull to have syntax highlighting. Syntax highlighting is a feature of text / code editors that highlights or colourises code. By colourizing code you can very easily recognise types of code.
9 comments March 20th, 2006 andris
How to change the look of a table
The look and feel of your tables are a critical part of providing clear, concise, and meaningful results. For example, if your table is difficult to read, the information contained within that table may not be easily understood.
In this log we will introduce the tablelook option in SPSS.
Double-click the table.
From the menus choose: Format > Tablelook
The TableLooks dialog box lists a variety of predefined styles. Select a style from the list to preview it in the Sample window to the right.
You can use a style as is, or you can edit an existing style to better suit your needs. To use an existing style, select one and click OK.
4 comments March 17th, 2006 mark
Hello world! Here’s SPSSlog.com :)
We are Mark and Andris, two SPSS users in our daily professional life. We have started this blog simply because there is no SPSS log. At least not one we could find 
We hope to be of help to all the people using SPSS and looking for information, how-to’s and tips on SPSS.