Date:         Wed, 2 Jul 1997 17:55:56 -0500
Reply-To:     marso@holdthespamspss.com
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         David Marso <marso@SPSS.COM>
Organization: SPSS Inc
Subject:      Re: Automaticly grouping of records
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Bill,
Possibly RANK see NTILES subcommand.
David Marso
SPSS Consulting and Training
 
Have a great holiday
 
 
Bill Kossack wrote:
>
> I have been looking at the SPSS documentation without success.
>
> I have a large amount of data with many variables.  Is there a way to
> have the records automatically split into a specified number of groups?
> For example, I want to break up income into 5 different ranges.  It would
> be nice to avoid the coding process of writting code to put the records
> into 5 bins of increasing income such as very low, low, moderate, high,
> and filthy rich.
> --
>
>                                         Sometimes it takes a wise man,
>                                         to ask a stupid question
>
>                                         William S. Kossack
>                                         Lakewood, Colorado
>                                         kossack@netcom.com
>