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 Types of Commands
- 4.4 Order of Commands
- 4.5 Handling missing observations
- 4.6 Variables
- 4.7 Files Used by PSPP
- 4.8 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 CLEAR TRANSFORMATIONS
- 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 MATRIX DATA
- 6.10 NEW FILE
- 6.11 PRINT
- 6.12 PRINT EJECT
- 6.13 PRINT SPACE
- 6.14 REREAD
- 6.15 REPEATING DATA
- 6.16 WRITE
7 System Files and Portable Files
- 7.1 APPLY DICTIONARY
- 7.2 EXPORT
- 7.3 GET
- 7.4 IMPORT
- 7.5 MATCH FILES
- 7.6 SAVE
- 7.7 SYSFILE INFO
- 7.8 XSAVE
8 Manipulating variables
- 8.1 ADD VALUE LABELS
- 8.2 DISPLAY
- 8.3 DISPLAY VECTORS
- 8.4 FORMATS
- 8.5 LEAVE
- 8.6 MISSING VALUES
- 8.7 MODIFY VARS
- 8.8 NUMERIC
- 8.9 PRINT FORMATS
- 8.10 RENAME VARIABLES
- 8.11 VALUE LABELS
- 8.12 STRING
- 8.13 VARIABLE LABELS
- 8.14 VARIABLE ALIGNMENT
- 8.15 VARIABLE WIDTH
- 8.16 VARIABLE LEVEL
- 8.17 VECTOR
- 8.18 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 PROCESS IF
- 10.4 SAMPLE
- 10.5 SELECT IF
- 10.6 SPLIT FILE
- 10.7 TEMPORARY
- 10.8 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 T-TEST
- 12.6 ONEWAY
13 Utilities
- 13.1 COMMENT
- 13.2 DOCUMENT
- 13.3 DISPLAY DOCUMENTS
- 13.4 DISPLAY FILE LABEL
- 13.5 DROP DOCUMENTS
- 13.6 ECHO
- 13.7 ERASE
- 13.8 EXECUTE
- 13.9 FILE LABEL
- 13.10 FINISH
- 13.11 HOST
- 13.12 INCLUDE
- 13.13 PERMISSIONS
- 13.14 QUIT
- 13.15 SET
- 13.16 SHOW
- 13.17 SUBTITLE
- 13.18 TITLE
14 Not Implemented
15 Bugs
16 Function Index
17 Command Index
18 Concept Index
Appendix A Installing PSPP
- A.1 UNIX installation
Appendix B Configuring PSPP
- B.1 Locating configuration files
- B.2 Configuration techniques
- B.3 Configuration files
- B.4 Environment variables
- B.5 Output devices
- B.6 The PostScript driver class
- B.7 The ASCII driver class
- B.8 The HTML driver class
  - B.8.1 The HTML prologue
- B.9 Miscellaneous configuration
- B.10 Improving output quality
Appendix C Portable File Format
- C.1 Portable File Characters
- C.2 Portable File Structure
- C.3 Portable File Header
- C.4 Version and Date Info Record
- C.5 Identification Records
- C.6 Variable Count Record
- C.7 Case Weight Variable Record
- C.8 Variable Records
- C.9 Value Label Records
- C.10 Portable File Data
Appendix D Data File Format
- D.1 File Header Record
- D.2 Variable Record
- D.3 Value Label Record
- D.4 Value Label Variable Record
- D.5 Document Record
- D.6 Machine int32 Info Record
- D.7 Machine flt64 Info Record
- D.8 Auxilliary Variable Parameter Record
- D.9 Long Variable Names Record
- D.10 Miscellaneous Informational Records
- D.11 Dictionary Termination Record
- D.12 Data Record
Appendix E q2c Input Format
- E.1 Invoking q2c
- E.2 q2c Input Structure
- E.3 Grammar Rules
Appendix F GNU Free Documentation License
- F.1 ADDENDUM: How to use this License for your documents

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GNU PSPP

This manual is for GNU PSPP version 0.4.0, software for statistical analysis.

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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.
Installation: How to compile and install PSPP.
Configuration: Configuring PSPP.
Portable File Format: Format of PSPP portable files.
Data File Format: Format of PSPP system files.
q2c Input Format: Format of syntax accepted by q2c.
GNU Free Documentation License: License for copying this manual.