http://www.spsslog.com From users, for users Sat, 01 Dec 2007 14:36:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en SPSS 16.0 is now available in North America. You can order new licenses of SPSS 16.0 directly from the Web store. Upgrading is also possible. What's New in SPSS 16.0: SPSS Base In addition to a new interface, SPSS 16.0 offers expanded analytical capabilities and programmability enhancements, enhanced data management and reporting ... http://www.spsslog.com/2007/10/12/spss-16-launched/ Some of our visitors have recently been looking for information about the compatibility of SPSS software with the Microsoft operating system Vista. To check the compatibility of your version of SPSS with different operating systems (OS) , you can view the SPSS Compatibility Matrices. For each of the SPSS products ... http://www.spsslog.com/2007/07/04/spss-and-vista/ Today we launched SPSS Forum. We get a lot of questions from our website, and also a lot of comments with additions / new questions. Some time ago we have asked your help in answering these questions. Will and Lawrence came to our aid and have asked a lot of ... http://www.spsslog.com/2007/06/12/new-spss-forum-launched/ One of the many questions we got the last few days was from Dana. Dana asked us a question about combining two variables into one: "Hello, I need to essentially combine two variables that have been standardized into one new variable.  Data that is present in one variable is missing on the other ... http://www.spsslog.com/2007/04/10/combine-two-variables-into-one/ This week Eamonn send us the following question about the Compute function: When using transfor/compute - say to create a construct from a set of Likert Scale items - does SPSS save the formula used to create the new variable, or is it lost once you compute? SPSS does not save the formula in ... http://www.spsslog.com/2007/01/19/does-spss-remember-the-formula-used-in-compute/ From Lawrence, Will, Mark and Andris (SPSSlog.com) a Merry Christmas and happy 2007 for all of our visitors! Since the start of SPSSlog, we've answered over 200 questions on SPSS... we hope to help even more SPSS users in next year. Technorati: Posts that contain Happy Holidays per day for the ... http://www.spsslog.com/2006/12/22/happy-holidays/ Today, Aleksandar sent us the following question: "I'm having problems to recode system missing values to 0 with syntax editor. How can I do that?" In SPSS Syntax, missing values can be addressed via the keywords "sysmis" or "missing". For this explanation we assume that in addition to the values 1 and 2, ... http://www.spsslog.com/2006/12/07/recode-missing-values-with-syntax/ This week we got a question from Mark Mortensen regarding Coding Ordinal Data. “What is the best way to set up a variable and code ordinal data when it is generated by a question such as "Rank the following three items using 1 as the most use, 2 the next most ... http://www.spsslog.com/2006/11/03/coding-ordinal-data-2/ Hi SPSSlog users,  The following link is the simple example for recoding in SPSS and it’s explaining the purpose also. After reading this content, I welcome more discussion on this. At the end all the SPSS Log users will get more information about recoding in SPSS with more examples. In SPSS we have two different method ... http://www.spsslog.com/2006/11/02/recoding-in-spss/ Are you currently involved in survey research? Or are you developing a survey for the first time? Regardless of your level of experience, SPSS Survey Tips can help you plan, develop, and execute surveys. Source: SPSS http://www.spsslog.com/2006/10/16/spss-survey-tips/