Chapter 8
The Transform and Data Menus
In This Chapter
Sorting your cases in different ways
Using some data (and not other data) with Select and Split
Combining counting and case identifying
Recoding variable content to new values
Grouping data in bins
After you get your raw data into SPSS, you may find that it contains errors or that it isn’t organized the way you’d like. A way to alleviate these problems is by making modifications to your data, configuring the values into a form that’s easier to work with and read. This chapter contains some methods you can use to modify your data without losing any information.
A related problem is that you may want to analyze only some of your data, or you may want to perform the analysis more than once. For example, you may want to do a separate analysis for new customers and established customers. You may even want to select the good complete data and avoid the incomplete messy data. It’s all about massaging the data after it’s in SPSS and making ...
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