Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 08:59:59 -0700
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From: ViAnn Beadle <vab88011@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: How get rid of meaningless digits in MEANS output?
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Most procedures within SPSS add 2 decimal digits to the mean displayed since
most users would think those digits significant. Many procedures within SPSS
are able to calculate the MEAN of a variable and some of them allow you to
explicitly provide a format for the output. Check out REPORT (which produces
ordinary text output and not pivot table output), TABLES, or CTABLES. If
you're really determined, you can also use the AGGREGATE command to create a
new file of means as variables which you can then define PRINT FORMATS for
and use LIST CASES to list them.
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From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Eero Olli
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 8:47 AM
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: SV: How get rid of meaningless digits in MEANS output?
Thanks for your reply.
I should have written in my orginal mail that use the FORMATS
and my variables are already in F2.0 format. I have also tried the PRINT
FORMAT or WRITE FORMAT but the the output format of the MEANS command does
not change.
FORMATS A B (F2.0).
MEANS
TABLES=A B BY C
/CELLS MEAN COUNT MIN MAX .
I am running SPSS 15.0 and this behavior goes ways back, if I remember
correctly.
Best,
Eero
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Rådgiver Eero Olli
Likestillings- og diskrimineringsombudet
eero.olli@ldo.no +47 24055951
Postboks 8048 Dep, N-0031 Oslo
-----Opprinnelig melding-----
Fra: Hector Maletta [mailto:hmaletta@fibertel.com.ar]
Sendt: 24. januar 2008 16:27
Til: Eero Olli; SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Emne: RE: How get rid of meaningless digits in MEANS output?
The mean has the number of decimals established in the variable's format.
Just change the format before asking for the mean. For instance, for getting
no decimals:
FORMAT A B (F8.0).
MEANS A B /CELLS MEAN N.
The F8.0 implies eight visible places (including the decimal point), with
zero decimals. F8.2 would imply 8 places and 2 decimals, i.e. up to 5
integers, one place for the decimal point, and two decimals.
The FORMAT command does not affect the internal precision of the mean, or
any other result, which is always the same (about 20 decimals), but only the
appearance of the variable in the data editor and its statistics in the
output.
Hector
-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of
Eero Olli
Sent: 24 January 2008 20:48
To: SPSSX-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: How get rid of meaningless digits in MEANS output?
Hello to you all,
I am calculating some means often, and I would like to get rid of some extra
digits.
This is the output from MEANS
A B
Mean 6,60 9,86
N 3098 436
This is what I would like to have
A B
Mean 7 10
N 3098 436
Is there a way to reduce the number of digits (round) in the result to whole
numbers in the syntax? I have tried various commands but they affect the
variables themselves, not the result of the means procedure.
Sincerely,
Eero Olli
_________________________________
Rådgiver Eero Olli
Likestillings- og diskrimineringsombudet
eero.olli@ldo.no +47 24055951
Postboks 8048 Dep, N-0031 Oslo
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