merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-09 Thread Gordon Handford
Hello, New to PSPP (0.7.5 version run on Windows 7 home premium). Want to merge four files and run simple stats comparing portions of the files that have overlapping fields. I have built one file with about 250 variables, all named, with 94 cases each from one of four versions of a survey. Need

Re: merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Gordon Handford writes: > New to PSPP (0.7.5 version run on Windows 7 home premium).  Want to merge > four files and run simple stats comparing portions of the files that have > overlapping fields.  I have built one file with about 250 variables, all > named, with 94 cases each from one of four v

Re: merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Are you asking whether there is a way to do this through the GUI, without entering syntax? No, there is not, yet. Gordon Handford writes: > Hi Ben, and thank you for the instant response!  > > I have no experience with changing the coding.  Is there a way I can instruct > PSPP using the command

Re: merging files and doing simple stats

2011-02-09 Thread Gordon Handford
So how on earth would I enter the syntax to make this modification? Remember that I am not a programmer. The last programming I did was 30 years ago in Fortran. Maybe I need to give up and enter each case by hand? G On 9 February 2011 15:26, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Are you asking whether there is a

Re: Assistance

2011-02-09 Thread Jason Stover
The file PSPP.zip was empty. Can you post the data somewhere else online? On Wed, Feb 09, 2011 at 02:46:59PM -0500, Peter Preston wrote: > I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. The results are not good when I do a > linear regression. I hope that I'm just not hitting the right button or > somethin