You have to use the command with another variable and change the
variable name in the PSPP command. It works. I know it, because I did it.
If you need training on how to analyze your data with PSPP, then I
recommend you to take a course on data analysis with PSPP or IBM SPSS
Statistics or you can search for PSPP tutorials e.g. on youtube.
Kind regards,
Dr. Oliver Walter
Am 07.05.2022 um 14:33 schrieb someone:
Hi Dr. Walter.
Thanks very much for responding.
Unfortunately, two issues:
I saw that method, however for some reason it doesn't work in my data
set. When I bring up the menu for mean, Arearegion doesn't appear in
the list of variables. It -is- in the data set, but it doesn't appear
in the list in the means box.
Also, I -can- get means when I do one way anova. However, in the
descriptive box, two regions East AsiaSoutheast Asia and South Asia
appear in scientific notation. When I save this as html and bring it
into a spreadsheet, I get the first two digits and then a bunch of zeros.
My data set seems to have a lot of things that make it difficult. :(
Thanks
Gene
-----Original Message-----
From: Dr. Oliver Walter <o.wal...@psychometrie-online.de>
To: pspp-users@gnu.org
Sent: Sat, May 7, 2022 1:43 am
Subject: Re: means and sums, by group, using the menus
Hello,
you can get sums by the command that compare "means" in the "compare
means" menu
Analyze > compare means > means .
How you use this command is shown in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdC8vWiEKb4
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdC8vWiEKb4>
Of course, if you calculated means you only have to multiply the mean
of a group times the sample size N in this group to get the sum. You
know: mean = sum/N. Hence, sum = mean * N.
But it can also be done by PSPP. If you click on "paste" in the
"compare means" menu, then another window will open which contains the
command:
MEANS TABLES = population
BY AreaRegion .
Then you delete the last full stop and add
/ CELLS = COUNT MEAN STDDEV SUM .
as the last line. The whole command will then look like
MEANS TABLES = population
BY AreaRegion
/ CELLS = COUNT MEAN STDDEV SUM .
You select this whole command and execute it.
If you need training on how to analyze your data with PSPP, then I
recommend you to take a course on data analysis with PSPP or IBM SPSS
Statistics or you can search for PSPP tutorials e.g. on youtube.
Kind regards,
Dr. Oliver Walter
Am 07.05.2022 um 01:15 schrieb someone:
Hi all
Another question, again using the data set below. Well, a version
after I removed all non letter and number characters.
shortdataset.csv
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11WIET3s4eMHsB6JQ6hOQBx0SKquGRKKw/view?usp=sharing
<https://drive.google.com/file/d/11WIET3s4eMHsB6JQ6hOQBx0SKquGRKKw/view?usp=sharing>
I want to get means and sums of population by arearegion. I can't
quite figure out how to do that.
I can get means if I do analyze / compare means / one way anova. But
that doesn't give me sums. And it seems like there should be a simpler
way to get means of a variable by group. Is there, and I'm just not
seeing it?
I want to do this in the drop down menu system, not by command line.
Thanks
Gene
