Re: Question regarding Select Cases

2016-01-14 Thread John Darrington
On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 01:05:01PM -0500, Ed Nelson wrote: Could someone help me on how to use the select cases option. Let's say I want to select out the males for analysis. I click on Data and on Select Cases. I'm assuming I want to use a filter variable and would put SEX into the box to

Re: Question regarding Select Cases

2016-01-14 Thread Alan Mead
Ed, I've never used the GUI to select cases but when I choose Data > Select Cases and move a variable into "Use filter variable" it generates "FILTER BY" syntax and that syntax is explained here: http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/FILTER.html which only works if you have already c

Question regarding Select Cases

2016-01-14 Thread Ed Nelson
Could someone help me on how to use the select cases option. Let's say I want to select out the males for analysis. I click on Data and on Select Cases. I'm assuming I want to use a filter variable and would put SEX into the box to the right of use filter variable. But then what? When I click on