Yes, any value below the first cutpoint will be recoded into a 1. I can't see the behavior you describe with either SPSS 15 or 16. You can paste the syntax from the binner to see exactly what it will generate.
Regards,
Jon Peck
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Subject: [SPSSX-L] visual binning
hi guys just a quick question about visual binning.
i have a data and i wanted to use visual binning to break my variable up
into ten different intervals of equal sample size. so i use visual binning,
and i specify under make cutpoints, that i want equal percentiles based on
scanned cases. number of cutpoints = 9 and width = 10
so this should give me a new variable with numbers from 1 to 10 to represent
each interval. however, when my number in the data set is 0, then the binned
variable becomes a 0 too. but shouldn't it be showing up as a 1 because 1 is
my lowest interval (ie anything below my lowest cutpoint should be 1 because
otherwise now i have 11 different numbers showing up in my new variable)?
any ideas what im doing wrong? thx.
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