Re: MEANS TABLE output

[John Darrington]

Hello Kai,

Thanks for the question.  It is possible that the SPSS documentation
was misinterpreted when this command was implemented.

Can you run your example through SPSS and post the result?

Thanks.

John

On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 12:25:34PM +0100, Kai Borgolte wrote:
     Hi,
     
     I just discovered which GREAT progress this software made over
     the years. Thanks very much for that to the contributors!
     
     I want to clarify this before sending bug reports: In the archive
     of this list I found the thread with the same subject from July
     2014. I think that the implementation of MEANS TABLES is buggy.
     Particularly the meaning of "MEANS TABLES = a by b by c" seems
     mixed up with "MEANS TABLES = a by b c".
     
     Given this example, which is slightly adjusted from the manual
     one's (the manual states that each of the three subcommands
     produces only one table):
     
     get file = 'C:\Programme\PSPP\share\pspp\examples\hotel.sav' .
     MEANS TABLES =
         v1 v2 v3 BY v4 /
         v1 v2 BY v4 v5 /
         v1 BY v4 BY v5 .
     
     The first subcommand produces two tables, both grouped in three
     blocks v1 v2 v3. The first one has results for single values of
     v1, v2, v3, the second one has totals. These are the same numbers
     as in SPSS, but SPSS arranges them in one table and has v1, v2,
     v3 as columns and mean, count, stddev as rows.
     
     The second subcommand also produces two tables, also both grouped
     in two blocks v1 v2, also one for details and one for totals (no
     subtotals). The details are for single values of v4 and v5
     combined, I think this is what the manual describes "a
     categorical variable formed by the combination of y and z", but
     which references the _third_ subcommand.
     In SPSS the _third_ subcommand produces one table with the same
     detail numbers, again with total and subtotals.
     
     The third subcommand produces three tables, ungrouped, two for
     details and one for total. In SPSS the _second_ subcommand
     produces two tables with the same numbers.
     
     Using psppire.exe 0.8.4-g012d99, 64 bit from sourceforge in Windows 8.
     Using SPSS for Windows Release 8.0.0 (11 May 1998) in Windows
     2000/Oracle VM Virtualbox. :-) :-(
     -- 
     Kai Borgolte, Bonn
     
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