[ Moving discussion to pspp-users since this is a question about usage] Spearman correlation can be done through the CROSSTABS command. For example:
crosstabs /tables X by Y /statistics = corr. will give you both the Pearson and Spearman correlation between the variables X and Y. It's true that it is not easy to do multiple correlations in one go. For this we need the NONPAR CORR command which unfortunately doesn't exist (yet). I don't know why you are having difficulty copying from the output screen. For me it works fine: Use Edit|Select All and then Edit|Copy and this will put the whole screen into the clipboard. (If you're running in the de_AT locale then presumably the above labels will read Bearbeiten|Alles auswahlen and Bearbeiten|Kopieren) J' On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:15:26AM +0000, Diamond Lisa wrote: First, thanks so much for this program! I am really glad it is available and use it regularly. One feature I really miss though is the possibility of calculating a rank correlation - I need this so often as I work with a lot of data where the distribution is not normal and every time I start looking around if this is really not possible with PSPP. It seems such a small and basic thing but so far I have not encountered a solution. Is this really the case? I have a hard time believing this as there are so many much more advanced functions available for analysis. Is there maybe a way via the syntax, like with the Kruskal Wallis test and other nonparametric procedures? I see it listed in the manual under "CORR" but there is no information on how to make it happen anywhere and if I set the variable types to "ordinal" I still get a Pearson correlation according to the output. Another side note is that it would be fantastic if at some point it would be possible to copy directly from the output instead of having to save it first as a different file type - but that is relatively minor while the missing Spearman option is really a problem for me. -- Avoid eavesdropping. Send strong encrypted email. PGP Public key ID: 1024D/2DE827B3 fingerprint = 8797 A26D 0854 2EAB 0285 A290 8A67 719C 2DE8 27B3 See http://sks-keyservers.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
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