SPSS SYNTAX REQUEST FOR COMPARING A MEDIAN WITH A MEAN OF A SUBSET

[Peter Watson-7]

Please reply to Tony directly if you feel you can help! With many thanks Peter

 

 

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I am wondering if anyone has a useful piece of SPSS syntax I could use for the following piece of analysis I need to undertake.

 

I need to calculate the difference between the median score of the FSP score and the mean score of the lowest achieving 20% in FSP for each ward code. It is , of course, an easy matter to do this for the whole of my county, although even that requires some manual manipulation. I simply produce a frequency table showing the median, then export this into Excel and perform the calculation required manually. I really dont want to do that for 283 wards! I am hoping someone can advise how this could be done electronically.

 

Thanks very much.

 

Tony Alderton

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[David Marso]

Take a gander at the AGGREGATE and RANK commands.

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