One cannot refer to a label unless the label has first been defined with the LA command. The OU command must always be last. Transformation of variables followed by recoding can differ markedly from the same recoding of variables followed by the same transformation. These operations have immediate effect and are done in the order that they appear in the command file. Treatment of missing values.
First imputation is done, if requested, then listwise deletion.
Classification of variables into fixed, ordinal, censored, and continuous. Bootstrap sampling, if requested. Computation of statistics. The number of categories in an ordinal variable cannot exceed 15. If a variable has more than 15 distinct values, not counting missing values, it will be treated as continuous.