Select Cases in SPSS
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This tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on how to select cases in SPSS. It also demonstrates how to calculate the mean using the selected cases and how to conduct a one-sample t-test based on the filtered data.
Selecting Cases Select Cases excludes parts of the dataset based on the values of certain variables in the dataset. All analyses run after using Select Cases will only include the selected subset of the data.
Select cases
Select cases Select Cases provides several methods for selecting a subgroup of cases based on criteria that include variables and complex expressions. You can also select a random sample of cases . The criteria used to define a subgroup can include:
Select Cases provides several methods for selecting a subgroup of cases based on criteria that include variables and complex expressions. You can also select a random sample of cases .
How to Select Cases in SPSS
In this tutorial, we'll look at how to select cases in SPSS, and how to work with the resultant filtered data. The Data The data we're using for this tutorial comes from a hypothetical study that examines how long it takes people to fall asleep during a statistics lesson. The two variables we're interested in here are Sex, either male or female, and Duration, which is the number of ...
Selecting cases using a single conditional criterion The selection criteria that we use in the Select Cases command can be very elaborate involving many variables, arithmetic operations, and/or functions.
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SELECT IF: "Permanent" selection To SELECT cases means that all other cases are deleted from the working file. This command therefore is useful for saving computation time; if you are doing a certain amount of analyses on a part of your data only, if will be reasonable to SELECT that part.
This tutorial explains how to select cases based on multiple conditions in SPSS, including several examples.
How to Select Cases
How to Select Cases While the previous chapter elaborated on how to choose between a quantitative research design, a qualitative research design, or a mixed research design for deductive explanatory research projects, this chapter deals with decisions on case selection for the different types of projects (see Figure 5.1). In qualitative projects the number of cases is by nature limited ...
