Hi Rainer, the survey contains mostly missing data because I did not enter all values. You can discard most variables apart from the first few where there is some data. The main issue is this: I have created a file, added variables using syntax, but used the GUI to enter numbers. When I did a frequency for those few variables (I tested 2/3 of them), I found that all values had frequency of 0 (zero).
Why did that happen? Is my SAV file corrupted somehow? Does using the GUI to type in data (for numeric variables) not work? Note that I did save the file as text, and imported it in a new SAV file and frequencies worked. I don't have enough knowledge to analyse the SAV file to verify that is corrupted somehow or to check if entering values manually could cause a problem. Regards, Michele On Sat, Apr 27, 2019 at 10:49 AM <r...@gmx.at> wrote: > Michele & the glorious group of PSPP, > > 89,9% of cells contain missing values - maybe some of these slipped > somewhere into a denominator thus ending up with NaNs in the output? > > Rainer > > > ------------------------------ > On 27 Apr 2019 at 9:44, Michele Mor wrote: > > Hi. > Please see attached data file. > > Thanks. > Michele > > > On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 8:58 AM Michele Mor <*m.mor.m...@gmail.com* > <m.mor.m...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi. > I will send the dataset at the weekend. > Best regards, > Michele > > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, 10:28 pm Alan Mead, <*am...@alanmead.org* > <am...@alanmead.org>> wrote: > I'm glad you got the analysis to work. Are you able to share the dataset > that didn't work? > > -Alan > > On 4/24/2019 4:01 PM, Michele Mor wrote: > HI. > A quick update. > I have saved the data set as text file and imported into PSPP (using GUI). > Done a frequency and now it works. > > I guess that inserting data using the GUI could cause some odd behaviour. > > Regards, > Michele > > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2019 at 9:38 PM Michele Mor <*m.mor.m...@gmail.com* > <m.mor.m...@gmail.com>> wrote: > Hi. > Apologies for the delay, but been very busy. > On my Fedora 29: > The pspp --version: > pspp (GNU PSPP) 1.2.0 > Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > > When I have executed the code provided by John everything worked as > expected. > > I guess that the problem is to be found in the data itself. > I have used the GUI to insert data, after creating variables using the > syntax. > For example: > Numeric surveytype (F8.0). > Variable label surveytype 'Paper or online survey'. > Value labels surveytype > 1 'Paper' > 2 'Online'. > Execute. > Once the variable was created, I manually inserted 1 or 2. > > I will try to create a new data set using the syntax command or importing > data from text file and see what happens. > Obviously I'm open to suggestions. > > Thanks, > Michele > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 3:22 PM John Darrington < > *j...@darrington.wattle.id.au* <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au>> wrote: > It would be helpful if you would state precisely *which* version you are > using. Simply saying "the latest version" is not helpful. Different > operating systems package different versions at different times so each > has a different idea of what the "latest" is. Use "pspp --version" to > find out which version you're actually using. > > Also, although you pasted the output from the frequencies command, you > did not share with us the input that you used, so it's hard for us to > say why it didn't work as you expected. > > Normally the "count" (ie: the number of cases with the given value) > appears in the column labeled "Frequency". In the output you posted > all frequencies (counts) are zero. So if this is not what you expected, > then perhaps there is something wrong with the way you entered the data. > > I'm using pspp version 1.2.0, and the syntax below seems to work > fine for me. I suggest that you start from there and see how you go. > > PS: Please read chapter 20 of the manual for tips on providing useful > bug reports. > > data list notable list /x *. > begin data. > 1 > 1 > 1 > 2 > 2 > 2 > 3 > 3 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 5 > 5 > end data. > > frequencies /variables=x /format=table. > > > > > > On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 12:20:22PM +0100, Michele Mor wrote: > > I have installed the latest release from sourceforge on windows and > the > latest package using dfn in Fedora 29. > Both had the same issue. > I'm going away for few days, but I'll try to install a different > version in > windows when I'm back. > I am a bit surprised that such a problem could creep up in a release > version, since it's something very basic and that everyone does. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > *Pspp-users@gnu.org* <Pspp-users@gnu.org> > *https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users* > <https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users> > > > -- > > Alan D. Mead, Ph.D. > President, Talent Algorithms Inc. > > science + technology = better workers > > *http://www.alanmead.org* <http://www.alanmead.org> > > "You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. > You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such > horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, > so alone, only you're not. See, in all our > searching, the only thing we've found that makes > the emptiness bearable, is each other." > > -- Carl Sagan, Contact > > > > >
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