Date:         Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:29:59 +0200
Reply-To:     Spousta Jan <JSpousta@CSAS.CZ>
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From:         Spousta Jan <JSpousta@CSAS.CZ>
Subject:      Re: Help with syntax
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Hi Hans-Christian,

In this case, the best way probably is to create a new variable with combinations of strings or numbers from the original variables, for example this way (on an example file from the SPSS instalation):

GET
  FILE='C:\Program Files\SPSS\1991 U.S. General Social Survey.sav'.

* let us find combinations in these variables:
hlth1 Ill Enough to Go to a Doctor
hlth2 Counselling for Mental Problems
hlth3 Infertility, Unable to Have a Baby
hlth4 Drinking Problem
hlth5 Illegal Drugs (Marijuana, Cocaine) .
string combin (a120).
do repe x = hlth1 to hlth5 / y = "Ill" "Mental" "Infertil" "Drink" "Drugs".
if x = 1 combin = concat(rtrim(combin)," ",y).
end repe.
var lab combin "Codes of combinations".

fre combin /FORMAT=DFREQ.


Perhaps you can recode it into a numeric variable thereafter:

AUTORECODE
  VARIABLES=combin  /INTO combinr
  /PRINT.

Greetings

Jan


-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hans-Christian Stahl
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:50 PM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Help with syntax

Dear List-Members,



Physicians were asked for each patient to answer with yes or no to 16 different single substances, which by way of combination, indicate the chemotherapy-scheme of each patient. The substances are therefore multiple response answers. How can I now find out the combinations for each patient and how can I do a frequency analysis of the combinations?



Can someone help me with the programming of the syntax?



That's how I thought it might be logically possible to find a solution to the problem:



*Begin.



The combination of the substances is given for each patient. If a substance occurs, the answer is yes or coded 0.



Let

X = Cisplatin

Y = Erbitux

Z = Avastin



And let for instance be: X=0 und Y=0 und Z=1.



if (in the list of the substances (X, Y, Z . ), the substance variables (X, Z, Y ...) = 0) make string variable with (substance variable label (here:
Cisplatin Erbitux)).



*End.



Your help is very much appreciated! Thank you in advance!

Christian



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