Simple Matrix Calculations

[Matt Freeman]

I'm new to SPSS and I have some "under the hood" work to do with principal
component analysis.  Can anyone provide me with the SPSS syntax for reading
the active dataset to a matrix, and then writing the resulting matrix to the
another data set.

Read active data set.
(I'll do some matrix computations I know how to do)
Write resulting matrix to a new data set.

Thanks, Matt

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[David Marso]

This is pretty well spelled out in the Syntax reference guide!!!
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data list free / a b c.
begin data
1 2 3   2 3 4   6 5 7   6 5 4   4 3 4   4 3 3
end data.
MATRIX.
GET data / FILE * / VAR ALL.
COMPUTE XTXINV=GINV(T(data)*data).
SAVE XTXINV / OUTFILE 'temp.sav'.
END MATRIX.
GET FILE 'temp.sav'.
LIST.

Matt Freeman wrote

I'm new to SPSS and I have some "under the hood" work to do with principal
component analysis.  Can anyone provide me with the SPSS syntax for reading
the active dataset to a matrix, and then writing the resulting matrix to the
another data set.

Read active data set.
(I'll do some matrix computations I know how to do)
Write resulting matrix to a new data set.

Thanks, Matt

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