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These are less subjective but don't always result in better decisions as we're about to see.In any case: we usually want to exclude outliers from data analysis. So how to do so in SPSS? We'll walk you through 3 methods, using life-choices.sav, partly shown below....
Some values are flagged with letters “a” through “e”, which is why they fail to convert. We'll now fix the problem. First, we close our data without saving and reopen it. We then rerun our previous syntax but remove these letters before the conversion....
MCAR occurs when the probability of missing data on a variable is unrelated to the values of that variable or any other variables in the datasets. In other words, the columns with missing data do not have an interdependency. The missing data is completely random and does not introduce bias. ...
In the following picture, the print area is not centered on page. To fix the problem, Go to theMarginstab and check the box beforeHorizontally. The print preview will look like this. 8.3. Removing Header & Footer If you want to remove the header & footer while printing, go to theHeader...
I would like to get a count of the number of missing values across a set of variables for each case. How can I do this in SPSS? Answer To create a count of missing values for each person across the numeric variables x1 to y5, you can use the COMPUTE command, as in : compute nu...
Let’s say we have the following dataset in our source worksheet: Employee Name, Working Day, and Total Salary, and we want to automatically update any changes to this data in another worksheet in Excel. We can do this by using one of the six following methods. Method 1 – Using the ...
In Stata there are several ways to drop observations from a dataset. The most basic way is to use the ‘drop’ command. This command allows you to select the observations that you want to remove from your dataset. The command works by identifying the observation you want to delete by its...
Why reprex? Getting unstuck is hard. Your first step here is usually to create a reprex, or reproducible example. The goal of a reprex is to package your code, and information about your problem so that others can run it…
Whether to show the whole matrix, as above or just the non-redundant bits, as below (arguably, the 1.00 values in the main diagonal should also be removed). How to format the numbers (for example, best practice is to remove the 0s prior to the decimal places and decimal-align the num...