GNU PSPP ¶

This manual is for GNU PSPP version 2.0.1-ga75a7e, software for statistical analysis.

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1 Introduction
2 Your rights and obligations
3 Invoking pspp
- 3.1 Main Options
- 3.2 PDF, PostScript, SVG, and PNG Output Options
- 3.3 Plain Text Output Options
- 3.4 SPV Output Options
- 3.5 TeX Output Options
- 3.6 HTML Output Options
- 3.7 OpenDocument Output Options
- 3.8 Comma-Separated Value Output Options
4 Invoking psppire
- 4.1 The graphic user interface
5 Using PSPP
- 5.1 Preparation of Data Files
- 5.2 Data Screening and Transformation
- 5.3 Hypothesis Testing
  - 5.3.1 Testing for differences of means
  - 5.3.2 Linear Regression
6 The PSPP language
- 6.1 Tokens
- 6.2 Forming commands of tokens
- 6.3 Syntax Variants
- 6.4 Types of Commands
- 6.5 Order of Commands
- 6.6 Handling missing observations
- 6.7 Datasets
- 6.8 Files Used by PSPP
- 6.9 File Handles
- 6.10 Backus-Naur Form
7 Mathematical Expressions
- 7.1 Boolean Values
- 7.2 Missing Values in Expressions
- 7.3 Grouping Operators
- 7.4 Arithmetic Operators
- 7.5 Logical Operators
- 7.6 Relational Operators
- 7.7 Functions
- 7.8 Operator Precedence
8 Data Input and Output
- 8.1 BEGIN DATA
- 8.2 CLOSE FILE HANDLE
- 8.3 DATAFILE ATTRIBUTE
- 8.4 DATASET commands
- 8.5 DATA LIST
- 8.6 END CASE
- 8.7 END FILE
- 8.8 FILE HANDLE
- 8.9 INPUT PROGRAM
- 8.10 LIST
- 8.11 NEW FILE
- 8.12 PRINT
- 8.13 PRINT EJECT
- 8.14 PRINT SPACE
- 8.15 REREAD
- 8.16 WRITE
9 System and Portable File I/O
- 9.1 APPLY DICTIONARY
- 9.2 EXPORT
- 9.3 GET
- 9.4 GET DATA
- 9.5 IMPORT
- 9.6 SAVE
- 9.7 SAVE DATA COLLECTION
- 9.8 SAVE TRANSLATE
  - 9.8.1 Writing Comma- and Tab-Separated Data Files
- 9.9 SYSFILE INFO
- 9.10 XEXPORT
- 9.11 XSAVE
10 Combining Data Files
- 10.1 Common Syntax
- 10.2 ADD FILES
- 10.3 MATCH FILES
- 10.4 UPDATE
11 Manipulating Variables
- 11.1 DISPLAY
- 11.2 NUMERIC
- 11.3 STRING
- 11.4 RENAME VARIABLES
- 11.5 SORT VARIABLES
- 11.6 DELETE VARIABLES
- 11.7 VARIABLE LABELS
- 11.8 PRINT FORMATS
- 11.9 WRITE FORMATS
- 11.10 FORMATS
- 11.11 VALUE LABELS
- 11.12 ADD VALUE LABELS
- 11.13 MISSING VALUES
- 11.14 VARIABLE ATTRIBUTE
- 11.15 VARIABLE ALIGNMENT
- 11.16 VARIABLE WIDTH
- 11.17 VARIABLE LEVEL
- 11.18 VARIABLE ROLE
- 11.19 VECTOR
- 11.20 MRSETS
- 11.21 LEAVE
12 Data transformations
- 12.1 AGGREGATE
  - 12.1.1 Aggregate Example
- 12.2 AUTORECODE
  - 12.2.1 Autorecode Example
- 12.3 COMPUTE
  - 12.3.1 Compute Examples
- 12.4 COUNT
  - 12.4.1 Count Examples
- 12.5 FLIP
  - 12.5.1 Flip Examples
- 12.6 IF
- 12.7 RECODE
- 12.8 SORT CASES
  - 12.8.1 Sorting Example
13 Selecting data for analysis
- 13.1 FILTER
- 13.2 N OF CASES
- 13.3 SAMPLE
- 13.4 SELECT IF
  - 13.4.1 Example Select-If
- 13.5 SPLIT FILE
  - 13.5.1 Example Split
- 13.6 TEMPORARY
  - 13.6.1 Example Temporary
- 13.7 WEIGHT
  - 13.7.1 Example Weights
14 Conditional and Looping Constructs
- 14.1 BREAK
- 14.2 DEFINE
- 14.3 DO IF
- 14.4 DO REPEAT
- 14.5 LOOP
15 Statistics
- 15.1 DESCRIPTIVES
  - 15.1.1 Descriptives Example
- 15.2 FREQUENCIES
  - 15.2.1 Frequencies Example
- 15.3 EXAMINE
- 15.4 GRAPH
- 15.5 CORRELATIONS
- 15.6 CROSSTABS
  - 15.6.1 Crosstabs Example
- 15.7 CTABLES
- 15.8 FACTOR
- 15.9 GLM
- 15.10 LOGISTIC REGRESSION
- 15.11 MEANS
  - 15.11.1 Example Means
- 15.12 NPAR TESTS
- 15.13 T-TEST
- 15.14 ONEWAY
- 15.15 QUICK CLUSTER
- 15.16 RANK
- 15.17 REGRESSION
  - 15.17.1 Syntax
  - 15.17.2 Examples
- 15.18 RELIABILITY
  - 15.18.1 Example - Reliability
- 15.19 ROC
16 Matrices
- 16.1 Matrix Files
- 16.2 MATRIX DATA
  - 16.2.1 With ROWTYPE_
  - 16.2.2 Without ROWTYPE_
    - 16.2.2.1 Factor variables without ROWTYPE_
- 16.3 MCONVERT
- 16.4 MATRIX
17 Utilities
- 17.1 ADD DOCUMENT
- 17.2 CACHE
- 17.3 CD
- 17.4 COMMENT
- 17.5 DOCUMENT
- 17.6 DISPLAY DOCUMENTS
- 17.7 DISPLAY FILE LABEL
- 17.8 DROP DOCUMENTS
- 17.9 ECHO
- 17.10 ERASE
- 17.11 EXECUTE
- 17.12 FILE LABEL
- 17.13 FINISH
- 17.14 HOST
- 17.15 INCLUDE
- 17.16 INSERT
- 17.17 OUTPUT
- 17.18 PERMISSIONS
- 17.19 PRESERVE and RESTORE
- 17.20 SET
- 17.21 SHOW
- 17.22 SUBTITLE
- 17.23 TITLE
18 Invoking pspp-convert
19 Invoking pspp-output
- 19.1 The detect Command
- 19.2 The dir Command
- 19.3 The convert Command
- 19.4 The get-table-look Command
- 19.5 The convert-table-look Command
- 19.6 Input Selection Options
20 Invoking pspp-dump-sav
21 Not Implemented
22 Bugs
- 22.1 How to report bugs
23 Function Index
24 Command Index
25 Concept Index
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