User Guide

ReadingDatafromaTextFile................................... 41
SavingData................................................ 49
4UsingtheDa
ta Editor 51
EnteringNumericData........................................ 51
EnteringStringData.......................................... 54
DefiningData............................................... 56
AddingaVariableLabel.................................... 56
ChangingVariableTypeandFormat........................... 57
Adding Valu
eLabelsforNumericVariables..................... 58
AddingValueLabelsforStringVariables....................... 60
UsingValueLabelsforDataEntry ............................ 61
Handling Mi
ssingData..................................... 62
MissingValuesforaNumericVariable......................... 63
MissingValuesforaStringVariable........................... 65
Copying and
PastingValueAttributes.......................... 66
Defining Variable Properties for Categorical Variables . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
5 Examining S
ummary Statistics for Individual
Variables 79
Level of Me
asurement ........................................ 79
Summary Me
asuresforCategoricalData.......................... 80
Charts for C
ategoricalData................................. 81
SummaryMeasuresforScaleVariables........................... 83
HistogramsforScaleVariables.............................. 86
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