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This is an strange error that has happened to some Macintosh user of IBM SPSS Statistics. When the user I talked to tried to put in the authorization code (license code) in the “Licens [...]

Date and time can be tricky to handle, and I got this question from a user: “How do you merge a date variable with a separate time variable, so you then can calculate number of hours [...]

Which chart should you use to present a crosstable based of the 2 category variables (gender and job_category)? I choosed column percent as gender is the independent (x) variable here and is [...]

I got this question last week, “What is the maximum length of string variables?” See the example of the string variable to the right in this data file: Many years ago I remember the [...]

I got a question from a user who wanted to know if there were a smart way to recode string variables – that was automatically created when opening an Excel data file into SPSS Statistics. [...]

In this example I will make a t-test to test if males and females mean values of salary differs significantly from each other. To do a t-test the salary should be normal distributed for male resp [...]

You can open other data files into SPSS Statistics and the most common, I Think, is an Excel data file. Here below you see an Excel data file. I have marked a yellow Square around all columns [...]

Next Monday I will show you how easy it is to do an automatic recode of string variables to numeric variables, but you will get the alphabetic order and there were a user who asked for an own [...]

This is a blog tip from one of our SPSS Statistics user, he really recommend to use the score wizard. I have in this example made a tree model and then you will see how simple it is to save and [...]

If you don’t want the syntax be logged directly in your output window (Viewer), see example below where you can see the logged syntax in the beginning of each result: To take away the log, [...]