Chart Templates

[drfg2008]

Would it be possible to use a chart template (.sgt) also in the Kaplan-Meier procedure (survival plot). And/ or is there any other way for automated formatting of the Survival Plot?

Same question for the One-Way ANOVA procedure means plot: how to format the plots (not manually).

Thx.

[Andy W]

You can use chart templates to format any chart. Some procedures allow you to specify a chart template on their plotting procedures, but if they don't it just uses the global template (which can be set in syntax if needed).

Within the template there are a few specific styles, for example in my V22 if you open up the chart template and search for "survival" you will see a few default element styles for the lines for what I believe are the KM plot. But, those just control the line types. Things like the background color, chart size, gridlines, etc. are controlled by the global template.

I do not believe there are any defaults like this for one-way ANOVA, but I imagine you could set the default for error bar styles someone in the chart template.

[Andy W]

Also FYI Marta Garcia-Granero has a nice template for survival curves, see http://gjyp.nl/marta/Kalbfleisch&Prentice95%25CI.SPS

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<template SPSS-Version="2.2" selectPath="12 47 "
 xmlns="http://xml.spss.com/spss/visualization"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
 xsi:schemaLocation="http://xml.spss.com/spss/visualization
 http://xml.spss.com/spss/visualization/vizml-template-3.0.xsd">
        <setAxisMargin categorical="false" lowerMargin="0%" role="x" upperMargin="5%"/>
        <setAxisMargin categorical="false" lowerMargin="0%" role="y" upperMargin="5%"/>
        <addFrame count="1" styleOnly="true" type="visualization">
                <style color="#ffffff" color2="transparent" number="0" visible="true"/>
                <style font-family="SansSerif" font-size="8pt" number="1" pattern="0" stroke-linecap="butt" text-fit="true" visible="true"/>
        </addFrame>
        <addFrame count="1" styleOnly="true" type="graph">
                <style color="transparent" color2="transparent" visible="true"/>
                <style color="#ffffff" color2="transparent" number="1" visible="true"/>
        </addFrame>
        <addFrame count="1" styleOnly="true" type="title">
                <style color="transparent" color2="transparent" visible="true"/>
        </addFrame>
</template>

[drfg2008]

Thx!

How can you set - change - the default template in Syntax?
Would you have the Syntax command.

[David Marso]

Hint:  It is  SET command ;-)
Go to Options on the menu, diddle the chart template setting and study the resulting echo in the output window.  Sometimes experimentation can result in insight.
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drfg2008 wrote

Thx!

How can you set - change - the default template in Syntax?
Would you have the Syntax command.

[drfg2008]

SET CTemplate='C:\....sgt'.

SET CTemplate=None.

thx.