TOPICS

Course Outline
Why Syntax?
Working with Syntax
Generating Syntax from the GUI
The Syntax Editor
Managing Syntax (e.g., log syntax in the Viewer and/or a journal file; Insert syntax from file)
Syntax for Reading and Saving Data (e.g. for reading and saving SPSS Statistics data files, ExcelTM files, text files)
Syntax for Defining Variables (e.g. variable and value labels, missing values)
Syntax for Selecting Cases (e.g., filtering cases, copying selected to new dataset)
Syntax for Transformations (e.g. Compute, Visual Binning, Recode)