Date:         Thu, 1 Jan 2009 13:28:31 -0600
Reply-To:     Ariel Barak <abarakabarak@gmail.com>
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From:         Ariel Barak <abarakabarak@gmail.com>
Subject:      Re: Deleting negatives
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Hi Humphrey,

Here is tested code that works...happy to help.

-Ariel

DATA LIST LIST /Score (F8).
BEGIN DATA
-78
80
-55
65
END DATA.

DATASET NAME Original.

COMPUTE AbsoluteScore=ABS(Score).

DESCRIPTIVES VARIABLES=AbsoluteScore
  /STATISTICS=MEAN STDDEV MIN MAX.

On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 12:01 PM, Humphrey Paulie
<humphreyyy1000@yahoo.com>wrote:

> Dear all,
> I have a variable that has both negative and positive values. I want to
> compute the mean of the absolute values, i.e., without considering the
> negative signs. I want to treat all negative values as positive and compute
> a mean. How can I do this in SPSS?
> Thanks a lotHumphrey
>
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