There are at least two ways to find out how many missing cases there are in a string variable. The first way is to use the missing values command to…
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Suppose that you have a group of people.  Each person is given his or her own unique id number.  Next, one by one, you ask each person to pick a…
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Sometimes it is convenient to loop through two lists of variables.  For example, you may want to run several simple regressions.  While syntax could be written to specify each dependent…
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Version info:  The examples on this page were developed using SPSS version 21. Let us suppose that you have data collected on children nested in schools.  You have a continuous…
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Say that you want to look at the relationship between how much a child talks on the phone and the age of the child.  You get a random sample of…
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NOTE:  This page was created using SPSS version 18.0.2. Variables can be easily renamed using the SPSS command rename. However, if you would like to rename many variables in your…
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Let’s read in an example dataset, crf24, adapted from Kirk (1968, First Edition). get file ‘c:https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/crf24.sav’. These data are from a 2×4 factorial design.  The variable y is the dependent…
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If you have been working on your data in SPSS, but need to move to Mplus to complete your analysis, you can prep and save your data in a form…
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There are at least two ways that an SPSS license can be renewed.  All methods assume that you have the authorization code for the upcoming licensing period.  If you need…
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NOTE:  This page was created using SPSS version 16.  Some of the syntax may not work in earlier versions of SPSS. NOTE:  We would like to thank David Nicholas from…
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