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Date:         Mon, 10 Jul 2006 13:15:15 -0700
Reply-To:     Howie Harshaw <harshaw@interchange.ubc.ca>
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From:         Howie Harshaw <harshaw@interchange.ubc.ca>
Subject:      LOOP Question
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Hi Folks,

I have to do a series of analyses for six different communities in one
dataset.  The communities are coded from 1 to 6.  I the past, I have
created six different filters and had lots of code.  It dawned on me
that there is a more parsimonious way of doing this, and I thought that
LOOP might work; having never used it before, I tried to adapt an
example form the syntax manual, but to no avail.  I have pasted my code
below... what have I done wrong?


LOOP #I - 1 TO 6.
COMPUTE filter_$=(Comm=#I).
VARIABLE LABEL filter_$ '(Comm=#I) (FILTER)'.
VALUE LABELS filter_$  0 'Not Selected' 1 'Selected'.
FORMAT filter_$ (f1.0).
FILTER BY filter_$.
EXECUTE .

FREQUENCIES /*Descriptive statistics for selected variables*/
   VARIABLES=sec01_04 Sec02_03 Sec02_06 Sec02_10 Sec02_12   Sec11_04
Sec11_09 @NEP_SCALE
   /STATISTICS=STDDEV MINIMUM MAXIMUM SEMEAN MEAN MODE
   /ORDER=  ANALYSIS .

END LOOP.


Thanks for any help you can provide,

- Howie
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Howard Harshaw, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Forest Resource Management
Faculty of Forestry