Date:         Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:03:18 -0500
Reply-To:     Art@DrKendall.org
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From:         "Arthur J. Kendall" <Art@DrKendall.org>
Organization: Social Research Consultants
Subject:      Re: n-fold cross validation in SPSS
Comments: To: peng jia <jiap_2000@yahoo.com>
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try something like this untested syntax.
if you want N to be 5
compute rangroup= rv.uniform(1,5).
sort cases by rangroup.
split file by rangroup.

Hope this helps.

Art
Art@DrKendall.org
Social Research Consultants
University Park, MD USA
(301) 864-5570


peng jia wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to do a N-fold cross validation experiments
> using SPSS. Is that a way to randomly split a given
> dataset into N-subgroups in SPSS?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Peng
>
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