[Reply posted to B. Olson and Edstat...]

Where are you getting the balues of your "imean"s from?  If from data,
why aren't you calculating them in the analysis, instead of entering
them by hand?  Or, if they're not conveniently calculable in the present
data set, why not read them in as supplementary variable?

On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, bolson wrote:

> I am working with a stacked data file in SPSS and need to center
> individual scores on group means such that I am doing a long (lots of
> cases) version of.
>
> if (id=101101) imean=2.00
> if (id=101102) imean=1.40

        [  snip, more SPSS syntax  ]

> is there any way to shorten this process? Each ID is unique..

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