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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 14:53:27 EDT
Reply-To:     Greg Nelson <GNELSON@UGA.BITNET>
From:         Greg Nelson <GNELSON@UGA.BITNET>
Subject:      Computing Variables which have overlapping Cases

There is probably an easy and obvious method for this, but here goes
anyway (and no this is not an apology-my speech teacher told me never to
do that)....

Let's say we have a variable called race that has the values:

     1 "Asian" 2 "African American/Black" 3 "Hispanic" 4 "White" 5
     "Other"

And I want to create a new variable that has three levels instead of
five, namely:


     1 "Hispanic" 2 "Non-Hispanic" 3 "White"


There would be some obvious overlap in the latter two categories but
this is what I need.


How do I do this? Please respond to me personally. Thanks in advance.

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   Greg Nelson
   gnelson@uga.cc.uga.edu
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 09:00:50 EDT
Reply-To:     Andy Stoughton <LAS@SRU.BITNET>
From:         Andy Stoughton <LAS@SRU.BITNET>
Subject:      LISREL

Good morning!
    We have a user who has expressed interest in using LISREL through
SPSS. I could find no reference to LISREL in my SPSS manuals. Is LISREL
an ADD-ON product? If it's not - where is it documented and how do we
go about using it? If it IS an add-on, who do we buy it from and
approximately how much does it cost?

    My apologies for my ignorance of the topic.

    We are running SPSS on an IBM ES9221 under the CMS/ESA operating
system.

Thanks for any assistance,

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Date:         Thu, 3 Sep 1992 12:00:00 PDT
Reply-To:     Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM.BITNET>
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From:         Melvin Klassen <KLASSEN@UVVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: SPSS vs BMDP

On Tue, 18 Aug 1992 20:41:00 CDT, Randall Martin <TJ0RBM1@NIU>
posted to <BMDP-L@MCGILL1>:
>In the SPSS MANOVA procedure the adjusted means from an ANCOVA
>with repeated measurements do not match the adjusted means from BMDP2V.
>As an example, the data from Winer, p. 615 are used as below.
>Does anyone know the issue here?

Which release of BMDP are you using?
Which release of SPSS are you using?

Figure 33.77a on page 633 of "SPSS-X(tm) User's Guide, 3rd Edition"
displays the orthonormalized transformation matrix,
and assigns the names T1 through T4 to the columns.

The SPSS output refers to the variable named 'T1':
  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
  Adjusted and Estimated Means
  Variable .. T1
        Factor          Code    Obs. Mean     Adj. Mean     Est. Mean

   GROUP                  1      20.97750      20.77775      20.97750
   GROUP                  2      13.90643      15.10494      13.90643
   GROUP                  3      20.97750      19.97874      20.97750
  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Using the column of adjusted-means, let's compute a few ratios:

    20.77775 / 15.10494 = 1.37555992
    15.10494 / 15.10494 = 1.0
    19.97874 / 15.10494 = 1.32266265

Let's look at the BMDP output,
which does **not** refer to 'T1', and calculate a few more:

 DEP1        1    12.65401     9.70524    12.57685
 DEP2        2    16.73056    11.65401    15.67933
                  --------    --------    --------
 Sum  =           29.38457    21.35925    28.25618

 RATIOS=          1.3757304    1.0         1.3229013


These ratios look familiar, right?
To 4 significant digits, they match the ratios from the SPSS output.

So, the output is different, due to the orthonormalization,
but conveys the same information.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 10:23:45 GMT
Reply-To:     Clare Gill <CGILL@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
From:         Clare Gill <CGILL@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
Subject:      Including random sample in subsequent statistical analysis

Hello,

Version & Platform : SPSS Release 4.1 under VM/HPO V5.0

This query is on behalf of a member of the academic staff of University
College Dublin, who is not a member of this list. Please reply to me
privately and I will then summarise for the list.

The customer has a datafile with a number of variables - they need
to take a random sample of the data for records where the value of
a variable, say, VAR1=1 and then include this sample along with
all the records for which VAR is not equal to 1 in any further
statistical analysis.

I can get the random sample, but I am not sure as to how they should
proceed in merging the random sample cases along with the others
in the subsequent analysis.

Many thanks in advance.

                   Regards,

Clare Gill
University College Dublin Computing Services
Belfield
Dublin 4
Tel : 353-1-7062007
E-mail : CGILL@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
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From: billcat@milton.u.washington.edu (Cory Sandahl)
Subject: SPSS/PC For Windows
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 02:47:20 GMT

Can anyone out there give me a review of the new SPSS/PC For Windows?
I am interested in purchasing the package for our dept. but would like to get
some feedback from someone who has had experience with it.

Thank you.

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Date:         Tue, 1 Sep 1992 22:42:00 CDT
Reply-To:     TJ0RBM1@NIU.BITNET
From:         TJ0RBM1@NIU.BITNET
Subject:      SPSS VS BMDP

In the SPSS MANOVA procedure the adjusted means from an ANCOVA
with repeated measurements do not match the adjusted means from
BMDP2V.  As an example, the data from
Winer, p. 615 are used as below.  Does anyone know the issue
here?


   BMDP 2V

/COMMENT       'WINER COVARAIANCE EXAMPLE'.
/PROBLEM       TITLE IS 'WINER COVARAINCE'.
/INPUT         VARIABLES = 6.
               FORMAT = '(6F3.0)'.
/VARIABLES     NAMES = GROUP,SUB, COV1,DEP1,COV2,DEP2.
/GROUP        CODES(GROUP) =1 TO 3.
              NAMES(GROUP) = GRP1,GRP2,GRP3.
/DESIGN         DEPENDENT = DEP1,DEP2.
                GROUPING IS GROUP.
                COVARIATES = COV1,COV2.
                LEVEL = 2.

/END
  1  1  3  8  4 14
  1  2  5 11  9 18
  1  3 11 16 14 22
  2  4  2  6  1  8
  2  5  8 12  9 14
  2  6 10  9  9 10
  3  7  7 10  4 10
  3  8  8 14 10 18
  3  9  9 15 12 22



   SPSS MANOVA

DATA LIST FILE=DATA RECORDS = 1
 /GROUP 1-3 SUB 4-6 COV1 DEP1 COV2 DEP2 COV3 DEP3 7-24
MANOVA DEP1 DEP2 BY GROUP(1,3) WITH COV1 COV2
   /WSFACTORS PHASE(2)
   /OMEANS
   /PMEANS TABLES(GROUP) VARIABLES(DEP1,DEP2)


Thanks.


Randall Martin
Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Il 60115
TJ0RBM1@NIU
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 18:05:49 EDT
Reply-To:     Greg Nelson <GNELSON@UGA.BITNET>
From:         Greg Nelson <GNELSON@UGA.BITNET>
Subject:      KANO - Research Technique
Comments: To: "Stat-L" <stat-l@ricevm1.BITNET>
Comments: cc: SAS-L <sas-l@UGA.BITNET>, SPSS-L <spssx-l@UGA.BITNET>

Does anyone know anything about a research technique called "KANO"?  It is
used for attribute prioritization in product development...

p.s. - sorry for the cross posting and it's potential non-relevance, but after
all research is a primary foci of many subscribers here....

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   Greg Nelson                       Bitnet:  gnelson@uga
   UCNS - Client Services             Phone:  (706) 542-5359
   The Unviersity of Georgia       Internet:  gnelson@uga.cc.uga.edu

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From: nichols@spss.com (David Nichols)
Subject: Responses to Greg Nelson and Felicia Ferko
Organization: SPSS Inc.
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 23:00:23 GMT

Greg's need should be doable through RECODE, or with a prior COMPUTE to
make a new variable first if he wants to keep the old version around too.

Felicia, check the MULT RESPONSE procedure; I think this is what you
want. I tried mailing this directly to you, but couldn't get mail through
to ff12@andrew.cmu.edu.

--
 David Nichols           Statistical Support Specialist            SPSS, Inc.
 Phone: (312) 329-3684     Internet: nichols@spss.com     Fax: (312) 329-3657
*******************************************************************************
 Any correlation between my views and those of SPSS is strictly due to chance.
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 15:47:32 GMT
Reply-To:     Clare Gill <CGILL@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
From:         Clare Gill <CGILL@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
Subject:      Including random sample in subsequent statistical analysis

Hello,

Many thanks to the following for their suggestions regarding the inclusion
of random samples in subsequent statistical analysis :

Jonathan Fry    JON@SPSS.COM
Stephen Salbod  SALBOD1@PACEVM
Ann M. Mair     CHGS02@VAXA.STRATHCLYDE.AC.UK
Allan Reese     R.A.Reese@SEQ.HULL.AC.UK

The solution was to perform a DO IF .. END IF loop within which the
random sample is generated.

DO IF VAR1=1
.    SAMPLE .1
END IF

                   Regards,

Clare Gill
Computing Services
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Tel : 353-1-7062007
Fax : 353-1-2837077
E-mail : CGILL@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 13:46:31 EDT
Reply-To:     Janice Winchell <WINCHELL@KENTVM.BITNET>
From:         Janice Winchell <WINCHELL@KENTVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Reading acov matrix file under CMS

Has anyone been successful creating an asymptotic cov matrix (when using
polycoric corr) with PRELIS and then reading it into LISREL in a CMS
environment?

A researcher here at Kent State and I have tried several methods and can't
seem to get it to work.  The most straightforward methods result in the
following message

ERROR #18382
A file named inline in LISREL commands cannot be defined via a CMS filedef


If it can't be defined via a filedef, how are you SUPPOSED to read it ?
This, by the way, is the SPSS-generated filedef, since the LISREL statement
is
       AC FI = 'againcfa matrix a' /

and we do not issue any filedefs.

Thanks for any help you have to offer.

Jan Winchell
Systems Analyst
Academic Computer Services
Kent State University             BITNET:    WINCHELL@KENTVM
Kent, Ohio   USA   44242          INTERNET:  WINCHELL@KENTVM.KENT.EDU
216-672-2736
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From: CHZIEG01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU (Craig H. Ziegler)
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Subject: Manova/Array Problem
Date: 31 Aug 92 15:44:47 GMT
Reply-To: "Craig H. Ziegler" <CHZIEG01@ULKYVM.LOUISVILLE.EDU>
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Programmer Analyst II.
PHONE: 588-5881

To SPSS.Listserv users:

    I have a researcher who is trying to execute a Repeated Measures
Manova.  His data set consists of 18 subjects divided into 2 groups
(9 subjects per group) having measures on 64 scores (score1 to score64)
with 6 factors at 2 levels:

     MANOVA SCORE1 TO SCORE64 BY GROUP(0,1)
       WSFACTOR=SYM1(2),SYM2(2),SYM3(2),SYM4(2),SYM5(2),SYM6(2)/
       WSDESIGN= /
       ANALYSIS (REPEATED) /
       DESIGN = GROUP/

He receives an error message after execution when SPSS is calculating
the 5 way interaction which reads:

 ***SPSS PROGRAM ERROR***MANOVA MEMORY ALLOCATION IN ARRAY INDFPW

This program is being executed in SPSS Version 4.1 on the IBM
Mainframe under CMS.  Any help from the list in solving this
problem is greatly appreciated. (P.S. Don't ask me how he plans
on interpreting the results of this Repeated Measures Manova, please
stick to the ARRAY problem.)

Sincerely,

Craig Ziegler
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 10:19:00 EST
Reply-To:     "Brian K. Pickerill" <00BKPICKERIL@BSUVAX1.BITNET>
From:         "Brian K. Pickerill" <00BKPICKERIL@BSUVAX1.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: SPSS/PC for Windows (sic)

>I am a refuge from SAS-PC and SPSS for Windows is my first experience with an
>SPSS product. Further my use to date has been limited to data manipulation and
>simple descriptive statistics.  With that caveat, I am very happy with the
>product.

>90% of the requirement for coding and memorization of arcane syntax and
>language rules have been removed.  When you must code, there is no functional
>difference between SPSS for Windows and SPSS/PC.

Boy, you HAVEN'T used SPSS much, have you?  There are a great many differences
between SPSS/PC and SPSS.  You can certianly do real work with SPSS/PC, but
I'd hate to have to use it when real SPSS is available.

>                                                  The mother of all advatages
>is its effective use of extended memory.  We can sort and manipulate a 12,000
>obs., 500 variable data set at will.  This would have brought down the house
>in SAS for PC.  This is no quiche eaters' program, however.  I wouldn't bother
>with it, if you are not going to run it on at least 386/33 with 8mb of memory.

The whole memory scheme of Windows (DOS) is still a kludge.  Maybe WIN NT
will fix it though.  Then there's OS/2.

>The end result of are migration are much happier former MAC users, a much
>lower mainframe bill each month and new avenues for innovation through the use
>of DDE with other Windows products.

Well, those were your Mac users.  I won't be "much happier" until SPSS updates
the Mac version. (No, I'm not holding my breath, but I would expect it to
happen before any update to the OS/2 version, at least.)  I wouldn't think it
at all worthwhile to switch BACK to DOS (windows) just to run the latest
version of SPSS.  DDE is no match for IAC, either, IMHO.

What were those Mac users using, anyway?  Vintage 1986 Mac Pluses?
Are they also happy about giving up thousands of other stable applications for
a handful of windows apps?

Or are they just happy for you, and glad to see that you can now run real
SPSS on your MeSsyDOS Box?  ;-)

Brian Pickerill                     U      U   00BKPICKERIL@LEO.BSUVC.BSU.EDU
Ball State University               U Ball U   Bitnet: 00BKPICKERIL@BSUVAX1
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 and Academic Assessment             UUUUUU    Muncie, Indiana  47306
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 16:29:23 EDT
Reply-To:     Janice Winchell <WINCHELL@KENTVM.BITNET>
From:         Janice Winchell <WINCHELL@KENTVM.BITNET>
Subject:      The answer to reading the acov matrix problem

Thank you to Bob and Melvin for their advice on the PRELIS write acov /
LISREL ac fi = 'myacov matrix a'  problem.  Those were the same issues
I attempted to confront before throwing up my hands and consulting the list.
Close, but we were, of course, looking for a logical reason for the problem.
For all of you holding your collective breaths, the actual answer is/was . . .

UPPERCASE THE COMMAND FILE  ! ! !

A bit bizarre (sort of bmdp-ish) but apparently the original file was in
lowercase and between lisrel and spss the filedef could not be constructed.
When we uppercased the AC  FI = 'MYACOV MATRIX A' command with the rest
of the file, we were highly successful.

We have 3-4 people doing some rather inventive lisrel analyses here.  I have
been involved in several situations dealing with reading and writing
intermediate files between prelis and lisrel, and it is no picnic !  This is
in contrast to what I consider a normally VERY user friendly package which I
have very few qualms about suggesting to new (especially) stat package users.

Thanks for listening to my gripes.

jw
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From: tft8g@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Timothy F. Tolson)
Subject: Re: lisrel for unix
Organization: University of Virginia
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 16:35:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.195810.7189@unlinfo.unl.edu> dspanel@unlinfo.unl.edu (David Spanel) writes:
>I was wondering if anyone can point me in the right direction
>for a contact for lisrel.
>
>I am interested in obtaining a version for Sun Os 4.1.2
>
>thanks for your help,
>
>dspanel@unl.edu
>

Contact Scientific Software, Inc., 
        1525 East 53rd Street, Suite 906
        Chicago, IL  60615
        (800) 247-6113


I received a notice from them the end of June saying they were shipping
LISREL/PRELIS for IBM RS/6000 AIX machines and "a version for the SUN
SPARCstation will follow shortly".  

Regards,
       Tim
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:11:00 EDT
Reply-To:     GUZOREK@SNYCORVA.BITNET
From:         GUZOREK@SNYCORVA.BITNET
Subject:      Reading Heirarchical data

Some years ago when I worked at the State University of New York in Binghamton
I received a SPSSX-L message on using SPSS-X to read heirarchical data.  I
have lost that message and need to counsel someone on using SPSS/PC+ to read
Current Population Survey data off a CD-rom.  Does someone have this
information or know where I can get it.

Christine M. Guzorek
Sr. Programmer/Analyst
Academic Computing Services
SUNY College at Cortland

Local:  SCORVA::GUZOREK
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Date:         Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:27:48 GMT
Reply-To:     Clare Gill <CGILL@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
From:         Clare Gill <CGILL@IRLEARN.UCD.IE>
Subject:      Thanks re: Using data subset in subsequent analyses

Hello,

Further thanks must also go to

Arthur Kendall AJK@CU.NIH.GOV
Rauno Veijola  VEIJOLA@JYU.FI

for finding an alternative solution to the one in my earlier posting -

FILE HANDLE CLARE NAME = "CLARE DATA A"
DATA LIST FILE = CLARE NOTABLE RECORDS =1/
     var1 1-3 var2 5 var3 7

VARIABLE LABLES var1 "Variable 1"
                var2 "Variable 2"
                var3 "Variable 3"

SAVE OUTFILE=CLARE1
SELECT IF VAR2=1
SAMPLE .1
SAVE OUTFILE=RESULT1
GET FILE CLARE1
SELECT IF VAR2 NE 1
ADD FILES FILE=RESULT1 / FILE=*
SAVE OUTFILE=RESULT2
LIST CASES
FINISH

                   Regards,

Clare Gill
Computing Services
University College Dublin
Belfield
Dublin 4
Tel : 353-1-7062007
Fax : 353-1-2837077
E-mail : CGILL@IRLEARN.UCD.IE
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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 11:28:03 EDT
Reply-To:     "Frank P. Zinni, Jr." <PSCZINNI@UBVM.BITNET>
From:         "Frank P. Zinni, Jr." <PSCZINNI@UBVM.BITNET>
Subject:      SORTING IN MATRIX LANGUAGE

To Whomever is interested,

     I am writing an SPSS matrix program in which I would like to sort
two matrices. One in ascending order and the other in descending order.
Both matrices are to be sorted by columns, so that the resulting matrices
have rows which are ordered from the highest to lowest value in each column
(and from the lowest to highest).  I am sure that there is a standard
algorthym for accomplishing a sorting of any vector of integers; however,
I have minimal programming training and find myself stuck on this issue.







     Could you please send your response to PSCZINNI@UBVM, since I do not
subscribe to this newsletter.  I can assure that the response  will be
summarized and placed in the letter.

                                    Thank you,
                                       Frank Zinni
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Date:         Fri, 4 Sep 1992 14:51:34 EDT
Reply-To:     Andy Stoughton <LAS@SRU.BITNET>
From:         Andy Stoughton <LAS@SRU.BITNET>
Subject:      LISREL summary

SPSSers,
    Thanks go to Necia Black, Liora Pedhazur Schmelkin, and Melvin
Klassen for their responses to my LISREL query. Thanks also to Melvin
who noticed that I had mis-identified our operating system. I called
it CMS/ESA --- what I MEANT TO call it was VM/ESA.

LISREL is an add-on product which is included with SPSS for an additional
fee. Licensing is done through SPSS and there are two manuals documenting
LISREL. The SPSS INFO command produces as part of its output a listing
of information concerning the LISREL interface.

Thanks again to the respondents,

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