Re: Filtering a specific sample of cases (not random)

2015-04-16 Thread Frans Houweling
I guess this involves saving the excel sheet as text, read it with PSPP, SORT BY Code and save as .sav (exercise left for the reader). Then, use MATCH FILES to import Cluster from this table into your data file (be sure the Code key have same name and length in both files): SORT CASES BY Code.

Re: Filtering a specific sample of cases (not random)

2015-04-16 Thread Alan Mead
Or possibly: Temporary. Select if( Cluster = '2A' ). freq / Code. The temporary makes the select if statement active only for the next analysis. So you'd have to repeat it if you had a second analysis. You could also omit it but then your dataset will be altered... I hope you're not analyzing y

Re: Filtering a specific sample of cases (not random)

2015-04-16 Thread Alan Mead
Robert, Something like this? sort cases by Cluster. execute. split file by Cluster. execute. freq / Code. split file off. execute. All that was from memory and untested; my apologies if I remembered wrong but hopefully it suggests the solution. -Alan On 4/16/2015 5:14 AM, Robert Orzanna wrote

Filtering a specific sample of cases (not random)

2015-04-16 Thread Robert Orzanna
Dear all, I recently started using PSPP to analyse sav data. I must say that I have no previous experience with SPSS. But from what I have seen so far, I very much like PSPP. I have one (maybe simple) question that I couldn't find an answer for in the documentation. In an Excel file I have a