FW: Missing sub commands in PSPP

I think I should have sent this to the pspp-users e-mail rather than directly to Alan Mead. Aplogies.

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To: address@hidden
Subject: Missing sub commands in PSPP
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:53:29 +0000

Hi,

I have just joined the PSPP users mailing list and am trying to find how to get boxplots.

I came across your thread dated Mon, 29 Dec 2014 09:38:27 -0600 with comments from Terence Palmer and John Darrington.

I too am a novice user of PSPP. I only recently downloaded

release no. 0.8.4-g5ce6b1

and I'm running it on Windows 7 on a 64 bit machine.

I can't find how to do box plots in psppire so I've been trying to use commands in the syntax window. I have been trying to do the second example at the bottom of page 131 of the PSPP manual with the "physiology.sav" data file.

The file has definitely loaded after using the GET FILE ="......physiology.sav". command.

I've then typed

EXAMINE height weight BY sex /STATISTICS = EXTREME (3) /PLOT = BOXPLOT /COMPARE = GROUPS /ID = name.

The syntax editor told me there is no variable called 'name'.

I shortened the command to

EXAMINE height weight BY sex /STATISTICS = EXTREME (3) /PLOT = BOXPLOT /COMPARE = GROUPS

and I get the results in 'Screenshot1' attached above but I can't see any box plots. Are they going somewhere other than the Syntax Window?

I've tried typing:

EXAMINE height weight BY sex /STATISTICS = DESCRIPTIVES /PLOT = HISTOGRAM /NOTOTAL

to repeat the first example on page 131 of the manual but with the "physiology.sav" data file but I still don't see a histogram. I got the results in 'Screenshot2' attached above.

Please can you or anyone else help.

Many thanks,

Robin Reeves

From:	Robin Reeves
Subject:	FW: Missing sub commands in PSPP
Date:	Tue, 30 Dec 2014 16:59:18 +0000