Re: means procedure

[Ben Pfaff]

Thanks Zoltan, that's a very specific and useful report.  For the
moment, I've added this as a bug in the PSPP bug tracker, at:
        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?44264

On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 11:37:24AM +0100, Zoltan Fabian wrote:
> Hi,
> It is indeed confusing. User guide (version 0.8.4) writes:
> 
> "More than one table can be specified in a single command. Each table is
> separated by a ‘/’. For example
> MEANS TABLES =
> c d e BY x
> /a b BY x y
> /f BY y BY z.
> has three tables (the ‘TABLE =’ is optional). The first table has three
> dependent variables c, d and e and a single categorical variable x. The
> second table has two dependent variables a and b, and two categorical
> variables x and y. The third table has a single dependent variables f and a
> categorical variable formed by the combination of y and z." (p. 139)
> 
> The emphasis is on the third table. PSPP produces two tables for means of f
> by y and mean of f by x, rather than one for mean f by combination of y and
> z.
> SPSS *can* do it. I have attached two sample outputs. One for PSPP, and one
> for SPSS.
> It would be very useful to resolve this issue.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Zoltan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2015-01-25 23:38, ftr wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I want to produce a table of means with 2 controls:
> >
> >     var1
> >     
> >     total
> >var2
> >     level 1
> >     level 2
> >     
> >level 1
> >     
> >     
> >     
> >level 2
> >     
> >     
> >     
> >Total
> >     
> >     
> >     grand mean
> >
> >
> >The dependent is coded 0 and 1 so that the cell entries easily provide
> >percentages.
> >
> >I thought that
> >MEANS DV1 by var by var2
> >would do the trick.
> >
> >But I get 3 separate tables
> >DV1 by Var1
> >DV1 by Var2
> >DV1 (table with Grand mean).
> >
> >Does MEANS allow to do what I want (or another procedure) ?
> >
> >TIA
> >ftr
> >
> >
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