Date:         Thu, 6 May 2004 23:01:50 +0000
Reply-To:     Valentim Rodrigues Alferes <alferes@CI.UC.PT>
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From:         Valentim Rodrigues Alferes <alferes@CI.UC.PT>
Subject:      Re: Highest 3 numbers in a list...
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Hi,

The following syntax does the job:

COMPUTE varmax = MAX(v1 to v15).
EXECUTE.
SORT CASES BY varmax(D).
TEMPORARY.
SEL IF $CASENUM<4.
DESCRIPTIVES VARIABLES=varmax/STATISTICS=MEAN.


Valentim Alferes
University of Coimbra

http://www.fpce.uc.pt/nucleos/niips/spss_prc/index.htm


Hi,

Does anyone have an easy way to get the highest 3 numbers from a list of up
to 15?  So there is a list of numeric variables v1,v2,v3,...,v15 and I want
to grab the highest 3 numbers and average them. Thanks, rich