Thanks to everyone who sent in helpful responses, I was able to fix this long-standing bug in DESCRIPTIVES with Z-scores and TEMPORARY: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?38786
This probably has the same root cause as the problems that people have recently reported in QUICK CLUSTER. That bug is not itself fixed yet, but I now know how to fix it. On Thu, Sep 24, 2026 at 4:27 PM Ben Pfaff <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to figure out how to fix a couple of bugs around TEMPORARY and > procedure that create new variables such as DESCRIPTIVES and QUICK CLUSTER. > Would someone mind running the following syntax for me in SPSS and reply > with the output? > > DATA LIST LIST NOTABLE /x. > BEGIN DATA. > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 5 > 6 > 7 > END DATA. > > COMPUTE y = x * 2. > TEMPORARY. > SELECT IF x < 7 . > COMPUTE z = x * 2. > > DESCRIPTIVES /VAR=x y z/SAVE. > LIST. > >
