I have been using pspp from the gui version psppire. I am running version 0.6.1 under Fedora 11. (The package is pspp-0.6.1-3.fc11.i586.) But I am unclear about some things.
1> Is it possible to delete variables? How about entries? 2> I've been running descriptive statistics for frequencies and crosstabs. But I have to copy what is in the output window each time and paste it into a text file using gedit. Is there some way using psppire to put the output in a file? Is there some way to control the format of the output? It often divides a cross tabulation table into separate sub-tables, as might be required to continue on the next page, and I then have to merge by deleting extra lines in gedit. Is there some way to show the details of how a recoded variable was recoded? 3> Supposedly pspp can produce graphs of various kinds, e.g., histograms. Is this only possible by running pspp in a terminal window at the command line? 4> I have split the data on the values of a certain variable and then run crosstabs on different pairs of variables. Some of these variables are recodings into new variables of other variables. (The split is done on the basis of one of these recoded variables.) There appears to be some sort of bug. Namely, in some cases, perhaps only in cases of recoded variables, the reported number of missing values is wrong in one of the two sets produced by the split. In the errant set, the number reported is the total number of missing values rather than just the number for that set. As far as I can tell the cross tabulations are right for the valid data. I've reported this to the pgpp-bugs mailing list, but haven't gotten a detailed response yet. I presume it is possible I did something wrong. e.g., in creating the recoded variables. Can anyone suggest anything which I might have done wrong? 5> Is there some tutorial which goes through various examples, particularly using psppire? I've been studying the manual, but it isn't a whole lot of help in using the pspire. -- Leonard Evens l...@math.northwestern.edu Professor Emeritus, Department of Mathematics, Northwestern University _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list Pspp-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
