PSPP

Table of Contents

GNU PSPP
1 Introduction
2 Your rights and obligations
3 Invoking PSPP
- 3.1 Non-option Arguments
- 3.2 Configuration Options
- 3.3 Input and output options
- 3.4 Language control options
- 3.5 Informational options
4 The PSPP language
- 4.1 Tokens
- 4.2 Forming commands of tokens
- 4.3 Variants of syntax.
- 4.4 Types of Commands
- 4.5 Order of Commands
- 4.6 Handling missing observations
- 4.7 Variables
- 4.8 Files Used by PSPP
- 4.9 File Handles
- 4.10 Backus-Naur Form
5 Mathematical Expressions
- 5.1 Boolean Values
- 5.2 Missing Values in Expressions
- 5.3 Grouping Operators
- 5.4 Arithmetic Operators
- 5.5 Logical Operators
- 5.6 Relational Operators
- 5.7 Functions
- 5.8 Operator Precedence
6 Data Input and Output
- 6.1 BEGIN DATA
- 6.2 CLOSE FILE HANDLE
- 6.3 DATA LIST
- 6.4 END CASE
- 6.5 END FILE
- 6.6 FILE HANDLE
- 6.7 INPUT PROGRAM
- 6.8 LIST
- 6.9 NEW FILE
- 6.10 PRINT
- 6.11 PRINT EJECT
- 6.12 PRINT SPACE
- 6.13 REREAD
- 6.14 REPEATING DATA
- 6.15 WRITE
7 System Files and Portable Files
- 7.1 APPLY DICTIONARY
- 7.2 EXPORT
- 7.3 GET
- 7.4 GET DATA
- 7.5 IMPORT
- 7.6 MATCH FILES
- 7.7 SAVE
- 7.8 SYSFILE INFO
- 7.9 XEXPORT
- 7.10 XSAVE
8 Manipulating variables
- 8.1 ADD VALUE LABELS
- 8.2 DELETE VARIABLES
- 8.3 DISPLAY
- 8.4 DISPLAY VECTORS
- 8.5 FORMATS
- 8.6 LEAVE
- 8.7 MISSING VALUES
- 8.8 MODIFY VARS
- 8.9 NUMERIC
- 8.10 PRINT FORMATS
- 8.11 RENAME VARIABLES
- 8.12 VALUE LABELS
- 8.13 STRING
- 8.14 VARIABLE LABELS
- 8.15 VARIABLE ALIGNMENT
- 8.16 VARIABLE WIDTH
- 8.17 VARIABLE LEVEL
- 8.18 VECTOR
- 8.19 WRITE FORMATS
9 Data transformations
- 9.1 AGGREGATE
- 9.2 AUTORECODE
- 9.3 COMPUTE
- 9.4 COUNT
- 9.5 FLIP
- 9.6 IF
- 9.7 RECODE
- 9.8 SORT CASES
10 Selecting data for analysis
- 10.1 FILTER
- 10.2 N OF CASES
- 10.3 SAMPLE
- 10.4 SELECT IF
- 10.5 SPLIT FILE
- 10.6 TEMPORARY
- 10.7 WEIGHT
11 Conditional and Looping Constructs
- 11.1 BREAK
- 11.2 DO IF
- 11.3 DO REPEAT
- 11.4 LOOP
12 Statistics
- 12.1 DESCRIPTIVES
- 12.2 FREQUENCIES
- 12.3 EXAMINE
- 12.4 CROSSTABS
- 12.5 NPAR TESTS
  - 12.5.1 Binomial test
  - 12.5.2 Chisquare test
- 12.6 T-TEST
- 12.7 ONEWAY
- 12.8 RANK
- 12.9 REGRESSION
  - 12.9.1 Syntax
  - 12.9.2 Examples
13 Utilities
- 13.1 ADD DOCUMENT
- 13.2 CD
- 13.3 COMMENT
- 13.4 DOCUMENT
- 13.5 DISPLAY DOCUMENTS
- 13.6 DISPLAY FILE LABEL
- 13.7 DROP DOCUMENTS
- 13.8 ECHO
- 13.9 ERASE
- 13.10 EXECUTE
- 13.11 FILE LABEL
- 13.12 FINISH
- 13.13 HOST
- 13.14 INCLUDE
- 13.15 INSERT
- 13.16 PERMISSIONS
- 13.17 SET
- 13.18 SHOW
- 13.19 SUBTITLE
- 13.20 TITLE
14 Not Implemented
15 Bugs
16 Function Index
17 Command Index
18 Concept Index
Appendix A Configuring PSPP
- A.1 Locating configuration files
- A.2 Configuration techniques
- A.3 Configuration files
- A.4 Environment variables
  - A.4.1 Environment substitutions
  - A.4.2 Predefined environment variables
- A.5 Output devices
- A.6 The PostScript driver class
- A.7 The ASCII driver class
- A.8 The HTML driver class
- A.9 Miscellaneous configuration
Appendix B GNU Free Documentation License
- B.1 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

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GNU PSPP

This manual is for GNU PSPP version 0.6.2, software for statistical analysis.

Copyright © 1997, 1998, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

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(a) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: “You have the freedom to copy and modify this GNU manual.”

Introduction: Description of the package.
License: Your rights and obligations.
Invocation: Starting and running PSPP.
Language: Basics of the PSPP command language.
Expressions: Numeric and string expression syntax.
Data Input and Output: Reading data from user files.
System and Portable Files: Dealing with system & portable files.
Variable Attributes: Adjusting and examining variables.
Data Manipulation: Simple operations on data.
Data Selection: Select certain cases for analysis.
Conditionals and Looping: Doing things many times or not at all.
Statistics: Basic statistical procedures.
Utilities: Other commands.
Not Implemented: What's not here yet
Bugs: Known problems; submitting bug reports.
Function Index: Index of PSPP functions for expressions.
Command Index: Index of PSPP procedures.
Concept Index: Index of concepts.
Configuration: Configuring PSPP.
GNU Free Documentation License: License for copying this manual.