Re: random selection from multiple measures

Posted by David Marso on Sep 05, 2014; 11:00am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/random-selection-from-multiple-measures-tp5727162p5727164.html

Presuming there is some sensible reason for tossing 84% of the data ;-(
Study this, fill in the <blanks> and ...< be well and prosper or as Dr. Who would quip RUN>!

GET FILE <yourdata> /KEEP <your6vars>.
COMPUTE ID=$CASENUM.
DATASET NAME rawdata.
*------*.

DATASET DECLARE picker.
SET MXLOOPS=200.
MATRIX.
LOOP #=1 TO 100.
SAVE GRADE(UNIFORM(1,6)) /OUTFILE picker/VARIABLES rank1 TO rank6.
END LOOP.
END MATRIX.

DATASET ACTIVATE picker.
COMPUTE ID=$CASENUM.
VARSTOCASES MAKE rank FROM rank1 TO rank6/ INDEX=index.
SELECT IF rank=1.
EXECUTE.

MATCH FILES FILE */FILE rawdata / BY ID.
VECTOR vars=<youristvar TO your6thvar>.
COMPUTE Keep=vars(rank).

tino wrote

Dear All,

I have repeated measures of the same observational units; specifically, for each observational unit, there are 6 measurements.

From these six measurements, I need to randomly select one measurement for each person.

For example, if there were 100 persons measured six times, there would be 600 measurements. From these 600 measurement, I would need 100 measurements, but each person should only be sampled once.

Say "person" is numbered from 1 to 100, and "measurements" is numbered from 1 to 6. Which sytnax could I use to make the kind of selection outlined above? Many thanks for your help!

Tino

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