Hi Beat,

if fixed your problem as part of this patch

https://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?8661

Thank you for reporting the problem. 

Regards

Friedrich
Am 06.02.2015 um 10:53 schrieb Friedrich Beckmann <friedrich.beckm...@gmx.de>:

> Hi,
> 
> looking at this example here:
> 
> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/faq/scatter.htm
> 
> i think that the implementation in pspp regarding which variable goes to 
> which axis is correct in that
> sense that is the same as in SPSS. 
> 
> In my view the title should then be: „Variable name of data on y-axis“ vs. 
> „Variable name of data on x-axis“ as 
> usually the dependent data is on the y axis. This would correspond to the 
> description e.g. in Matlab.
> 
> http://de.mathworks.com/help/matlab/ref/plot.html#btzpm1x
> 
> So maybe I should change that.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Friedrich
> 
> 
>> The title of the scatterplot says "Scatterplot y vs. x".  Now there is a 
>> debate about what y vs. x actually means. In my opinion it means that y is 
>> on the ordinate (vertical axis) and x on the abscissa (horizontal). But on 
>> the net there are opinions where "y vs. x"  means that x is on the ordinate. 
>> This is the present implementation in PSPP.
>>  
>> Note that the PSPP command to get x on the abscissa is "graph /scatterplot= 
>> x with y." The title of the scatterplot will be "Scatterplot x vs. y".
>>  
>> Any opinion on this?
>>  
> 
> 
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