User Guide

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Chapter 1
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You can control the treatment of error conditions in included command syntax
files with t
he new
INSERT command.
 You can us e t
he
FILE HANDLE command to define directory paths.
More information about command syntax is available in the SPSS Command Syntax
Reference PDF file, which you can access from the Help menu.
SPSS Server
 You can score data based on models built with many SPSS procedures. For more
informatio
n, see “Scoring Data with Predictive Models” in Chapter 7 on p. 174.
 You ca n wor
k with database sources more efficiently by preaggregating and/or
presorting data in the database before reading it into SPSS. For more information,
see “Aggregating Data” in Chapter 3 on p. 35.
Windows
There are a
number of different types of windows in SPSS:
Data Editor. This window displays the contents of the data file. You can create new
data files or modify existing ones with the Data Editor. The Data Editor window
opens auto
matically when you start an SPSS session. You can have only one data
file open at a time.
Viewer. All statistical results, tables, and charts are displayed in the Viewer. You can
edit the o
utput and save it for later use. A Viewer window opens automatically the
first time you run a procedure that generates output.
Draft Viewer. You can display output as simple text (instead of interactive pivot tables)
in the Dra
ft Viewer.
Pivot Table Editor. Output displayed in pivot tables can be modified in many ways with
the Pivot Table Editor. You can edit text, swap data in rows and columns, add color,
create m
ultidimensional tables, and selectively hide and show results.
Chart Editor. You can modify high-resolution charts and plots in chart windows. You
can change the colors, select different type fonts or sizes, switch the horizontal and
vertica
l axes, rotate 3-D scatterplots, and even change the chart type.