Date:         Mon, 16 Aug 2004 14:52:19 -0300
Reply-To:     Hector Maletta <hmaletta@fibertel.com.ar>
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From:         Hector Maletta <hmaletta@fibertel.com.ar>
Subject:      Re: SPSS/To randomly sort cases
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As indicated in a recent exchange in this same mailing list, you have to
compute a variable with random values, and then sort the cases by that
variable. For instance:

comp randvar=rv.uniform(0,1).
sort cases by randvar.

Hector

> -----Original Message-----
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> On Behalf Of Signe-Anita Lindgren
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> Subject: SPSS/To randomly sort cases
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I need to randomly sort 54 cases and would
> appreciate some help on how to do it in SPSS.
> Can I do this in SPSS 11.0.1? / How?
> I am not familiar with writing scripts and
> inserting own syntax.
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Signe-Anita Lindgrén
> German Philology
> Åbo Akademi University
> Finland
>