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SPSS syntax: define numerics, strings and multiline comments

April 15th, 2010

In SPSS you can program datasets in the SPSS syntax language. Unfortunately a lot of people working with SPSS do not really know how to use these syntax commands. A common way of using syntax is just do a “copy/paste” but barely knowing what the code really does. In order to solve this issue these series of SPSS syntax tutorials show, and explain how SPSS syntax can be used.

This tutorial is about how to define multiline comments, numeric and string variables in SPSS syntax code.

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Free SPSS alternative: GNU PSPP

April 9th, 2010

I recently do quite some work in SPSS, which is a program used for statistical analysis. A license for SPSS is quite expensive but there is a cheap solution as well…

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