Date:         Tue, 12 Sep 2006 10:44:58 +0200
Reply-To:     Spousta Jan <JSpousta@CSAS.CZ>
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From:         Spousta Jan <JSpousta@CSAS.CZ>
Subject:      Re: using ANY in select if
Comments: To: Bob Schacht <schacht@hawaii.edu>
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This is not so easy, Bob, because ABS function does not support the cute
TO convention - you cannot write

If sum(abs(v1 to v10)) > 0  /* WRONG COMMAND !!! */.

So you must write

If sum(abs(v1), abs(v2), etc.) > 0

Or use a loop as Richard Ristow devised earlier :-(

Greetings

Jan

>If Jan's interpretation of the original question is right, you could
also add up the absolute value of each
> difference, using a SUM function, and Select If SUM > 0
>
>Bob Schacht

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Bob Schacht
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2006 9:44 AM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: using ANY in select if

>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
>Of Spousta Jan
>Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 9:44 AM
>To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: Re: using ANY in select if
>
>Hi Tony,
>
>You wish to select cases where at least one of the difference variables

>is not zero? Try e.g. this:
>
>Select if  max(dif1 to dif10) > 0 or min(dif1 to dif10) < 0.
>
>Is this what you need?
>
>Jan

>-----Original Message-----
>From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
>Of Baglioni, Tony
>Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 4:31 PM
>To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>Subject: using ANY in select if
>
>All,
>
>
>
>Can someone please give me an example of the use of ANY within the
>select if command?  I have a list of difference variables and I want to

>select cases where the difference is not zero.
>
>
>
>TIA,
>
>Tony
>
>
>
>A. J. Baglioni, jr.
>
>Assistant Professor
>
>McIntire School of Commerce
>
>University of Virginia
>
>434 924-4961

Robert M. Schacht, Ph.D., Research Director Pacific Basin Research and
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