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From: scialfa@ACS.UCALGARY.CA
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Subject: spectral analysis and correlations
Date: 15 Oct 92 16:42:58 GMT
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A grad student in our dept. is examining field activity in the
entorhinal cortex and hippocampus. The result of this work is two
power spectra and their associated cross-spectrum and coherence
spectrum. Two questions have arisen regarding the coherence
spectrum.

First, is the coherence spectrum depicting a correlation?

Second, how can one best compare the values of two coherence
spectra at a single frequency, f?

Relatedly, any references pertaining to the above questions would
be appreciated.

Chip Scialfa
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From: dneufeld@student.business.uwo.ca (Derrick J. Neufeld)
Subject: anyone know of a good (flexible) SPSS report writer?
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1992 03:40:46 GMT

Hi - 

Has anyone out there ever heard of a good, flexible report writer for
SPSS?  We are running lots of stats, and manually translating findings
(mostly frequencies, crosstabs, anova's ... descriptive stuff) to 
word perfect tables.  

We would use SPSS's report writer, but it seems to me that report writer 
program would have to be re-written each time output requirements change a bit
(every time we run the program it is changed significantly in terms of output
order, categories included, etc ... i.e. cosmetic changes).

Ideally, I'd like to find an interactive package that could scan an
SPSS output file, pick out all the procedures and variables used, and 
present a list of them for the user to pick from (and additionally specify
which categories of each variable to include).  The program would then
output the specified information to formatted tables (word perfect or
whatever).  Anyone know of such a beast?

If not, I know of a programmer who might be interested in developing such
a package.  Do others have a need for this kind of thing?


dneufeld@student.business.uwo.ca (Derrick J. Neufeld)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
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From: nichols@spss.com (David Nichols)
Subject: Re: Covariates
Organization: SPSS Inc.
Date: Sun, 11 Oct 1992 00:28:03 GMT

In article <SPSSX-L%92100911340267@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> John Jaskir <jaskir@UMDNJ.EDU> writes:
>Can anyone advise how to enter more than one covariate in a
>repeated measures design using Manova in SPSS/PC ?
>The manual explains how to specify a constant covariate but I have two.
>
>For example: 4 Dep Vars: Trials1 to Trials4
>             1 WS factor: Trials (4)
>             1 Ind Var: Group (1,2)
>             2 Covariates: X Y

Yes. MANOVA makes you compute dummy copies of your covariates so that
there is one covariate per dependent variable when using WSFACTORS. It
will then find the dummy covariates to be redundant with a constant
term after transformation (they will be all 0) and they will thus drop
out of the analysis and not affect the repeated measures part. To get
MANOVA to run like this with two covariates, create dummy covariates
for each covariate and enter two sets:

compute x2=x
compute x3=x
compute x4=x
compute y2=y
compute y3=y
compute y4=y

manova v1 v2 v3 v4 by group(1,2) with x x2 x3 x4 y y2 y3 y4
 /wsfactor=trials(4)

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From:         WGILLIGAN@EMERSON.BITNET

We have a data set consisting of three groups of 15 subjects each. There are 56
different stimuli (pictures) to which each subject has been exposed, 7 stimuli
at each of eight different conditions (a range of time delays). For each
subject, the 56 stimuli are randomly assigned to the different delays, (e.g.,
for one subject the picture of a house may be shown with a 50ms delay and for
another subject the same picture may be shown with a 100ms delay. A response
time (in millisecs.) and correctness of response (1 or 0) are recorded for
each stimulus.

Question: What is the most flexible single way to set up the data for SPSS
such that various research questions may be answered?

One such question is: Is there an interaction between group and delay using
response time as the dependent variable? We also need to examine stimuli with
respect to subjects.

Should the data be set up differently if repeated measures analysis is to be
done?

You may respond to me directly (WGILLIGAN@EMERSON) if you think the response is
not of general interest. I will be happy to resopnd to the list with a summary
of the solutions.


Thank you,


Bill Gilligan
Division of Computer Applications and Mathematics
Emerson College, Boston, MA
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Date:         Tue, 6 Oct 1992 23:15:51 CST
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From:         GR3461@SIUCVMB.BITNET
Subject:      Thanks for answering my string variable question

I think my problem is to use frequencies to check the input. I will follow the
suggestiong to use LIST or REPORT to see what will happen. Thanks to people who
 provided quick answers.

Wang, Qin
From: KLAJMAN@APOLLO.MONTCLAIR.EDU (GILBERT KLAJMAN)
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Subject: Re: Canadian postal codes & SPSS/PC
Date: 16 Oct 92 19:53:00 GMT
Reply-To: GILBERT KLAJMAN <KLAJMAN@APOLLO.MONTCLAIR.EDU>
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Bob Burge inquired some days earlier about good ways to deal with Canadian
postal codes with a view to later using different portions of the string
(eg, 1st two, 1st three, characters).  The problem is not unique to
Canadian codes, and is more general.

Using Data Entry, simply enter the postal code as a complete string.
Once the entire file has been created, it is possible to use the
WRITE procedure to produce and ASCII file which contains only the
postal code as data.

You may then create a second SPSS system file, reading the postal
code string as you wish.  For example:

DATA LIST file 'codes.asc' FIXED / FIRST2 1-2 (A2) FIRST3 1-3 (A3) .
SAVE OUTFILE = 'POSTCOD.SYS'.
GET FILE 'FULL.SYS'.
JOIN MATCH / FILE * /FILE 'POSTCOD.SYS'.

The result will be an active file with the desired strings (FIRST2 and
FIRST3) as the last two variables.

Hope this helps.

Gil Klajman, Sociology, Montclair State, Upper Montclair, NJ  07043
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From: dreblow@vax.muskingum.edu (Lewis M. Dreblow)
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Subject: SPSS-Win [HOOPS] ?
Date: 12 Oct 92 08:16:02 -0600
Organization: Muskingum College

I hope its ok to post a SPSS-Windows question here :)

I keep getting the message:  HOOPS file not defined in WIN.INI whenever
I try to run the Chart application.  I look into the WIN.INI file and
find the following:

[HOOPS]
HOOPS_PICTURE = msw/spss5

On a hunch, since I don't have MSW, I deleted the above lines from WIN.INI
and magically the Chart application ran just fine.  Now I wonder whether I
have made a change that will rear its ugly head somewhere else.

What is [HOOPS] and what does it have to do with SPSS-Windows?

Thanks for any help.

Lewis Dreblow, DREBLOW@VAX.CNS.MUSKINGUM.EDU
Organization: Queen's University at Kingston
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1992 21:48:10 EDT
From: bob burge <BURGER@QUCDN.QueensU.CA>
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Subject: Canadian postal codes & SPSS/PC+

Got a typically Canadian problem: I have to enter some data (using DE) and
one of the fields is the applicant's postal code (for example, K7L3N6).  In
the end I will have to be able to manipulate parts of the code to get a
geographic area. This will most likely mean looking at the first or first
three characters of the postal code. Any suggestions on how to accomplish
this efficiently? Should I break the code into two parts at the DE stage?
[Anyone in the U.K. ever have to use a postal code?]  Thanks.

Bob Burge                                  Internet: burger@qucdn.queensu.ca
Opinion Research Unit - Queen's University - Kingston - ON - Canada - K7L3N6
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From: mucm000@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Fred Seaton)
Subject: bootstrapping
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:34:36 GMT

Hi,

I'm posting this for a faculty in our accounting department.  Please
respond to me, or the list, or to espahboh@ccmail.wiu.bgu.edu

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I would like to know if there is a procedure in SPSS, BMDP, or SAS
(or any other package) that allows bootstrapping with logistic
regression?  To be more specific, I like to select repeated random
sub-samples of my original sample, run a logistic regression on
each of those sub-samples, and use the coefficients of each
logistic regression to predict the outcome for the cases not
included in that particular regression (or sub-sample); my
objective is to get an estimate of the overall error rate in
predicting the outcome.  Please advise me of any possibilities.

                                             Sincerely,

                                             Hassan Espahbodi

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From:         Allan Reese <R.A.Reese@SEQUENT.CC.HULL.AC.UK>
Subject:      Long string variables.
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              regardless of software)" <stat-l@mcgill1.earn>

I've so far seen Mr Wang's original question and the SPSS reply
noting that it had been answered. So that I don't duplicate too
much of what you awaits me in the ether, I'll comment that SPSS
(the full language) has powerful facilities for string handling,
but SPSS PC+ lacks most of these, especially substring extraction
which I think is essential. Under Windows, you get the whole works
(I haven't checked that, and that's often fatal!).

My own inclinations when tabulating long strings are to use either
REPORT or AUTORECODE.  AUTORECODE has one trap, which is the excuse
for this mailing.

I had a use who input job titles as part of the data. (The data subjects
wouldn't have recognized the term "job title" but they've been dead a
couple of hundred years.) Since the data were transcribed verbatim, there
was little consistency of spelling or word choice. So my colleague used
something like:

autorecode var=jobtitle /into=jobcode /print

and after examining the printout he was able to classify the jobs in an
ad hoc way:

recode jobcode(1,3,6=1)(2,11,27,28,29=2) etc.

That worked fine, and reduced the job titles to a managable number of
discrete categories. HOWEVER, he then wanted to work on a subset, so
edited:

select if (date < 1800)

BEFORE the autorecode.  Of course (with hindsight!), the autorecode now
allocates quite different numbers to each job title and the recode is
a nonsense. But I can't remember how we picked up on it.

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From: mucm000@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Fred Seaton)
Subject: mean susbstitution in spss
Organization: Educational Computing Network
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1992 20:31:45 GMT

Hi,

Is it possible to used mean substitution for missing variables in a
compute statement in SPSS?

For instance,  I have 21 variables (v1 to v21), and I want to compute a
new variable fpr each case that consists of the sum of the above
variables across a single case:

	compute tot=sum(v1 to v21).

However, if any of those values are missing in the current case, we
would like to substitue the mean of that variable across ALL cases
inplace of the missing value.  Is there a simple way to do this?

thanks...

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Date: 16 Oct 92 12:33:03 GMT
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I have recently registered my username with bit.listserv.stat-l so that
communications are routed directly to my personal mailbox.  I was able to do
this because someone gave me the address to register at.

Does anyone know if I can also register with spssx-l in the same way?  If
so, where do I send my register message to (i.e. what is the address of the
listserver that manages the spssx-l list)?
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Date:         Mon, 12 Oct 1992 11:56:46 -0600
Reply-To:     kmiller@PSYCH.UIUC.EDU
From:         "Kevin F. Miller" <kmiller@PSYCH.UIUC.EDU>
Subject: Question about items/subjects analysis in (M)ANOVA
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Comments: cc: gmurphy@psych.uiuc.edu

In experimental psychology, a common design involves giving a sample of
items (e. g., words, sentences, whatever) from an essentially infinite
universe to a sample of subjects.  Because one wants to generalize beyond
the particular stimulus items, a problem known as the "language as fixed
effect fallacy" emerges.

   One solution to this problem is to conduct two analyses and report only
effects that emerge in each. In one analysis, one gets the mean for each
subject in each condition and does an analysis with subject as a random
variable.  In another analysis, one gets the mean for each item in each
condition and uses item as the random
variable.  In both cases, the other random variable is simply ignored. So,
subjects don't make an appearance in the item analysis and vice versa.

   Has anyone worked out to transform the data to do these analyses in SPSS?
-- Kevin F. Miller                [sent from 611 Psychology]
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 16:46:00 CDT
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From:         DF08@SWTEXAS.BITNET
Subject:      multinomial logistic regression

I have been using SPSS' LOGISTIC REGRESSION proc to model the risk of infant
mortality (dying vs. surviving the first year).  I would like to expand the
outcome to by polytomous -- i.e., risk of dying of one of several causes of
death vs. survival.  My question is will SPSS handle this type of logistic
regression equation?  If so, how do I do it?

Any suggestions will be appreciated!
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Date:         Wed, 7 Oct 1992 09:14:47 CDT
Reply-To:     "(Bruce Peterson)" <brucep@SPSS.COM>
From:         "(Bruce Peterson)" <brucep@SPSS.COM>
Subject:      Long String Variables
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Qin Wang of Southern Illinois University raised a question recently
about how to deal with character strings. In his original post he may
left an impression that SPSS was unable to deal with strings greater
that 8 characters. I'd like to clarify this.

SPSS supports character strings up to 255 characters.
However our FREQUENCIES procedure only will support the
first 8 characters (a short string) -- hence the message Mr. Wang received.
However there was several ways to deal with counts of string
data. In fact really too many to go into depth here. The
selection of a particular technique depends a lot on the
type of string data and what you want to learn from it.
Also it depends upon how elegant or "quick and dirty" you
wish to be. For example our AUTORECODE procedure will be
just the thing for a large number of situations.
In addition we support a full range of string handling
functions for INDEXing, SUBSTRing, TRIMing, and the other everyday
tasks you would want to do with string data.

I glad that Mr. Wang got his answer from the list, but I
just wanted to make sure that any misconceptions about our string
handling abilities was clarified.

Thanks for your time and bandwidth.
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From: nichols@spss.com (David Nichols)
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Subject: Re: multinomial logistic regression
Date: 9 Oct 92 02:41:58 GMT
Organization: SPSS Inc.

In article <SPSSX-L%92100717474864@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU> DF08@SWTEXAS.BITNET writes:
>I have been using SPSS' LOGISTIC REGRESSION proc to model the risk of infant
>mortality (dying vs. surviving the first year).  I would like to expand the
>outcome to by polytomous -- i.e., risk of dying of one of several causes of
>death vs. survival.  My question is will SPSS handle this type of logistic
>regression equation?  If so, how do I do it?
>
>Any suggestions will be appreciated!

No, the SPSS LOGISTIC REGRESSION procedure will not handle polytomous
dependent variables. If all of your predictors were categorical, you
could do multinomial logit models in LOGLINEAR. However, LOGLINEAR will
only handle continuous predictors as "cell covariates," that is, in
essence assigning the cell mean to each case for each continuous
variable. This will not give the same results as a logistic regression
if you have truly different continuous variables among your predictors
(by truly different I mean ones where each case has a distinct value
for the continuous variable).

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Date:         Thu, 15 Oct 1992 19:42:40 EST
Reply-To:     T120000 <T120@MUSIC.ULAVAL.CA>
From:         T120000 <T120@MUSIC.ULAVAL.CA>
Subject:      TRANSFORM A DIF FILE TO A SPSS FILE

I have two translate a DIF file to a SPSS system file. As the
SPSS-PC (4.01) command TRANSLATE cannot read a DIF file, I used
Lotus to read the DIF file and transform it to a Lotus (.wk1)
file; after, I used SPSS TRANSLATE to read the new Lotus file
with success. So, this procedure works, but it was slow (more
than an hour for a 1.7 megs file.

In a very next future, I would have to "translate" more files
of the same size and I would appreciate a more efficient proce-
dure. Does anybody can suggest me a more efficient way of doing
the job?

Thank you.

Michel de Seve
Universite Laval, Quebec

P.S.

For those who are not unintested in comparative politics and
the canadian saga, I think that the "no" option will win in
Quebec, but not in Canada ...
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Date:         Fri, 9 Oct 1992 11:33:21 EDT
Reply-To:     John Jaskir <jaskir@UMDNJ.EDU>
From:         John Jaskir <jaskir@UMDNJ.EDU>
Subject:      Covariates
Comments: To: spssx-l@uga.cc.uga.edu

Can anyone advise how to enter more than one covariate in a
repeated measures design using Manova in SPSS/PC ?
The manual explains how to specify a constant covariate but I have two.

For example: 4 Dep Vars: Trials1 to Trials4
             1 WS factor: Trials (4)
             1 Ind Var: Group (1,2)
             2 Covariates: X Y

Thanks in advance.
jaskir@umdnj.edu
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