Re: Problems with display

2012-03-03 Thread Eliana
If you need to use the output for a presentation soon, a quick workaround would be to use short variable names without labels, and create a separate table showing variable names and labels, that would serve as a key to the histogram. Eliana On 3/1/12, Bill Chadkirk wrote: > ... > When I try do d

Re: Problems with display

2012-03-02 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 05:22:26PM -, Bill Chadkirk wrote: Hi As part of an MPhil study on the sociology of religion I???m using PSPPIRE to analyse data on attendance at religious meetings, on a windows 7 laptop. When I try do display a histogram with a normalising curve the x

Re: Problems with display

2012-03-02 Thread Gaj Vidmar
Just don’t do a histogram with a “normalising” curve! Just don’t! Ever! Trust a highly experienced and qualified professional statistician, or, if you don’t accept arguement by authority, read any (text)book BY A QUALIFIED STATISTICIAN (or better yet, a giant; see hint) on data visualisation,

Problems with display

2012-03-01 Thread Bill Chadkirk
Hi As part of an MPhil study on the sociology of religion I’m using PSPPIRE to analyse data on attendance at religious meetings, on a windows 7 laptop. When I try do display a histogram with a normalising curve the x-axis labels are compacted and overwritten making them impossible to read. Is t