SPSS algorithms

[Michael Stobernack]

Dear all,

I tried to get some algorithm documentation about loess curves  in a
scatterplot from

www.spss.com/tech/stat/Algorithms.htm

But this website doesn't work any longer.

Does anyone have an idea where I can find this kind of documentation?

Best regards,

Michael

[Keith McCormick]

You should be able to find it in Help ...  Base System ... Algorithms
if you have a recent version. But ... since it is organized by
command, I don't see anything that would address this specific issue.

hth

Keith
www.keithmccormick.com



On 9/6/06, Michael Stobernack <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I tried to get some algorithm documentation about loess curves  in a
> scatterplot from
>
> www.spss.com/tech/stat/Algorithms.htm
>
> But this website doesn't work any longer.
>
> Does anyone have an idea where I can find this kind of documentation?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael
>

[Marta García-Granero]

Hi Michael

MS> I tried to get some algorithm documentation about loess curves  in a
MS> scatterplot from
MS> www.spss.com/tech/stat/Algorithms.htm
MS> But this website doesn't work any longer.
MS> Does anyone have an idea where I can find this kind of documentation?

Why is it such a difficult task (at least for me) to navigate thru the
support web page until I find where the algorithms page is hidden?

Well, I hope they don't mind that I deep-link to the page, instead of
having you suffer the same torture of clicking on every single item of
that page until you finally hit the correct combination of clicks (*):

http://support.spss.com/Tech/Products/SPSS/Documentation/Statistics/algorithms/index.html

(use "Guest" both as user and password to login).

Regards,
Marta

(*) I suppose that there is a more direct way, but I'm able to get there
only following this process:

- Go to www.spss.com
- Click "Support"
- Click "Technical support center"
- Click "Login to Online Tech Support"
- Login (using "Guest")
- Locate & click (left menu): "SPSS --> FAQs"
- Click "Product Documentation"
- Click "SPSS Statistics"
- Click "Algorithms"

If there is a better way of navigating to the site, I'd love to learn
it. SPSS website used to be less labyrinthic...

[Dr. Jeffrey D. Leitzel]

Greetings,
I am hoping that someone has seen this problem before. In my basic
statistics class, I have the students entering our first data set of the
simple height, age, gender, eye color variety and on two student's computers
spss was refusing to let them enter more than a 1 digit number in the height
or age variables.
Looking at the variable properties, nothing appeared to be amiss, everything
appeared to be the same as on the other machines where there was no problem.
I am hoping that someone has encountered this and can steer me to a likely
culprit before my students and I waste valuable class time trying to
troubleshoot.
Thanks in advance for any possible solutions you can provide, Jeff
Jeffrey D. Leitzel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Office: McCormick 2123
Bloomsburg University
400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg, PA  17815
Office Phone:[phone],fax:[phone]
Off Hrs:MWF 8:20 am - 10 am
Alt. Office (Tues): 570 348-6100 ext:3216

[Edward Boadi]

Jeff,
I guess the height and age variable was defined as a STRING of width 1 (one),
if the answer is yes , changing it to NUMERIC should work.

Edward.

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]On Behalf Of
Dr. Jeffrey Leitzel
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:10 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Data entry problem


Greetings,
I am hoping that someone has seen this problem before. In my basic
statistics class, I have the students entering our first data set of the
simple height, age, gender, eye color variety and on two student's computers
spss was refusing to let them enter more than a 1 digit number in the height
or age variables.
Looking at the variable properties, nothing appeared to be amiss, everything
appeared to be the same as on the other machines where there was no problem.
I am hoping that someone has encountered this and can steer me to a likely
culprit before my students and I waste valuable class time trying to
troubleshoot.
Thanks in advance for any possible solutions you can provide, Jeff
Jeffrey D. Leitzel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Office: McCormick 2123
Bloomsburg University
400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg, PA  17815
Office Phone:[phone],fax:[phone]
Off Hrs:MWF 8:20 am - 10 am
Alt. Office (Tues): 570 348-6100 ext:3216

[Dr. Jeffrey D. Leitzel]

Greetings SPSS'ers,
Just a follow up to my previous message, all variables are formatted as
numeric 8.2 (or whatever the default is) none were showing up as string or
anything out of the ordinary in variable view.
All machines running v 13, and set up identically (automated lab set up by
our tech people, I think).
Thanks for any suggestions, Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Dr.
Jeffrey Leitzel
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:10 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Data entry problem

Greetings,
I am hoping that someone has seen this problem before. In my basic
statistics class, I have the students entering our first data set of the
simple height, age, gender, eye color variety and on two student's computers
spss was refusing to let them enter more than a 1 digit number in the height
or age variables.
Looking at the variable properties, nothing appeared to be amiss, everything
appeared to be the same as on the other machines where there was no problem.
I am hoping that someone has encountered this and can steer me to a likely
culprit before my students and I waste valuable class time trying to
troubleshoot.
Thanks in advance for any possible solutions you can provide, Jeff
Jeffrey D. Leitzel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Office: McCormick 2123
Bloomsburg University
400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg, PA  17815
Office Phone:[phone],fax:[phone]
Off Hrs:MWF 8:20 am - 10 am
Alt. Office (Tues): 570 348-6100 ext:3216

[Marta García-Granero]

Hi Jeffrey

The only similar situation I remember (statistics class with SPSS) was
some people having problems entering dates (only half of the date could be
typed). To my surprise, the only difference between the computers with
and without problems was the "Scroll Lock" key being activated by
mistake (some of my little beasts didn't understand the difference
between "Num Lock" and "Scroll Lock"). I don't know if your problem is
caused by the same confusion of not. Good luck!

HTH,
Marta

DJL> I am hoping that someone has seen this problem before. In my basic
DJL> statistics class, I have the students entering our first data set of the
DJL> simple height, age, gender, eye color variety and on two student's computers
DJL> spss was refusing to let them enter more than a 1 digit number in the height
DJL> or age variables.
DJL> Looking at the variable properties, nothing appeared to be amiss, everything
DJL> appeared to be the same as on the other machines where there was no problem.
DJL> I am hoping that someone has encountered this and can steer me to a likely
DJL> culprit before my students and I waste valuable class time trying to
DJL> troubleshoot.
DJL> Thanks in advance for any possible solutions you can provide, Jeff

[Hoover, Matthew]

Under variable view, what was the "width" and the "decimal" settings for
those variables?  I have never had the width set for 2 or 3 places and
it only allowed a 1 digit place.

That is strange.

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Dr. Jeffrey Leitzel
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:10 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Data entry problem

Greetings,
I am hoping that someone has seen this problem before. In my basic
statistics class, I have the students entering our first data set of the
simple height, age, gender, eye color variety and on two student's
computers
spss was refusing to let them enter more than a 1 digit number in the
height
or age variables.
Looking at the variable properties, nothing appeared to be amiss,
everything
appeared to be the same as on the other machines where there was no
problem.
I am hoping that someone has encountered this and can steer me to a
likely
culprit before my students and I waste valuable class time trying to
troubleshoot.
Thanks in advance for any possible solutions you can provide, Jeff
Jeffrey D. Leitzel, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
Office: McCormick 2123
Bloomsburg University
400 East Second Street
Bloomsburg, PA  17815
Office Phone:[phone],fax:[phone]
Off Hrs:MWF 8:20 am - 10 am
Alt. Office (Tues): 570 348-6100 ext:3216

[lts1]

Hi Jeff,

    Have you checked the display width?  If it's set to one, the data will
be in the field, but only one character will appear in the data view.  HTH.

    Best,
        Lisa

Lisa T. Stickney
Ph.D. Candidate
The Fox School of Business
     and Management
Temple University
[hidden email]



----- Original Message -----
From: "Dr. Jeffrey Leitzel" <[hidden email]>
To: <[hidden email]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 11:10 AM
Subject: Data entry problem

> Greetings,
> I am hoping that someone has seen this problem before. In my basic
> statistics class, I have the students entering our first data set of the
> simple height, age, gender, eye color variety and on two student's
> computers
> spss was refusing to let them enter more than a 1 digit number in the
> height
> or age variables.
> Looking at the variable properties, nothing appeared to be amiss,
> everything
> appeared to be the same as on the other machines where there was no
> problem.
> I am hoping that someone has encountered this and can steer me to a likely
> culprit before my students and I waste valuable class time trying to
> troubleshoot.
> Thanks in advance for any possible solutions you can provide, Jeff
> Jeffrey D. Leitzel, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
> Office: McCormick 2123
> Bloomsburg University
> 400 East Second Street
> Bloomsburg, PA  17815
> Office Phone:[phone],fax:[phone]
> Off Hrs:MWF 8:20 am - 10 am
> Alt. Office (Tues): 570 348-6100 ext:3216
>

[Keith McCormick]

Hi Michael,

Unless I am mistaken, you have to log into tech support to see this
one.  I am endlessly confused as to which documents are accessible
with and without logging in. And is available as a .pdf for each
section.  (if anyone can access this without logging in, please post).

http://support.spss.com/tech/default.asp

Some, but not all, tech support features are available by logging is
as guest with password guest.

Good luck!

Keith

www.keithmccormick.com
On 9/6/06, Michael Stobernack <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I tried to get some algorithm documentation about loess curves  in a
> scatterplot from
>
> www.spss.com/tech/stat/Algorithms.htm
>
> But this website doesn't work any longer.
>
> Does anyone have an idea where I can find this kind of documentation?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael
>

[Keith McCormick]

Hello list,

I just did an experiment by logging in as guest and I could not access
the docs.  I logged in as me, and I could access the docs.  Could
anyone confirm this?  I think the bottom line is that many of the docs
require a real log in.

On 9/6/06, Marta García-Granero <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi Michael
>
> MS> I tried to get some algorithm documentation about loess curves  in a
> MS> scatterplot from
> MS> www.spss.com/tech/stat/Algorithms.htm
> MS> But this website doesn't work any longer.
> MS> Does anyone have an idea where I can find this kind of documentation?
>
> Why is it such a difficult task (at least for me) to navigate thru the
> support web page until I find where the algorithms page is hidden?
>
> Well, I hope they don't mind that I deep-link to the page, instead of
> having you suffer the same torture of clicking on every single item of
> that page until you finally hit the correct combination of clicks (*):
>
> http://support.spss.com/Tech/Products/SPSS/Documentation/Statistics/algorithms/index.html
>
> (use "Guest" both as user and password to login).
>
> Regards,
> Marta
>
> (*) I suppose that there is a more direct way, but I'm able to get there
> only following this process:
>
> - Go to www.spss.com
> - Click "Support"
> - Click "Technical support center"
> - Click "Login to Online Tech Support"
> - Login (using "Guest")
> - Locate & click (left menu): "SPSS --> FAQs"
> - Click "Product Documentation"
> - Click "SPSS Statistics"
> - Click "Algorithms"
>
> If there is a better way of navigating to the site, I'd love to learn
> it. SPSS website used to be less labyrinthic...
>

[Marta García-Granero]

Hi Keith

KM> I just did an experiment by logging in as guest and I could not access
KM> the docs.  I logged in as me, and I could access the docs.  Could
KM> anyone confirm this?  I think the bottom line is that many of the docs
KM> require a real log in.

Not for me. I have been able to access every document logging in as
Guest in the past, and three minutes ago...

Perhaps if too many people is logged in as Guest problems arise...

Regards,
Marta

>> http://support.spss.com/Tech/Products/SPSS/Documentation/Statistics/algorithms/index.html
>>
>> (use "Guest" both as user and password to login).
>>

[Boer, CPJ de]

Perhaps logging in as 'guest' is only half the story.
I don't get in on that.

However, when i log in as 'guest' with password 'guest' ...




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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]]Namens Marta
> García-Granero
> Verzonden: donderdag 7 september 2006 10:20
> Aan: [hidden email]
> Onderwerp: Re: SPSS algorithms
>
>
> Hi Keith
>
> KM> I just did an experiment by logging in as guest and I
> could not access
> KM> the docs.  I logged in as me, and I could access the docs.  Could
> KM> anyone confirm this?  I think the bottom line is that
> many of the docs
> KM> require a real log in.
>
> Not for me. I have been able to access every document logging in as
> Guest in the past, and three minutes ago...
>
> Perhaps if too many people is logged in as Guest problems arise...
>
> Regards,
> Marta
>