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Chapter 9
Figure 9-1
Initial Visual Bander dialog box
In the initial Visual Bander dialog box, you select the scale and/or ordinal variables
for which you want to create new, banded variables. Banding means taking two or
more co
ntiguous values and grouping them into the same category.
Since the Visual Bander relies on actual values in the data file to help you make
good banding choices, it needs to read the data file first. Since this can take some
time if
your data file contains a large number of cases, this initial dialog box also
allows you to limit the number of cases to read (“scan”). This is not necessary for
our sample data file. Even though it contains more than 6,000 cases, it does not
take lo
ng to scan that number of cases.
E Drag a
nd drop Household income in thousands [income] from the Variables list into
the Variables to Band list, and then click
Continue.