SPSS Syntax has long been exploited by expert analysts due to its flexibility, power and ease of learning. Syntax vastly increases users’ productivity by making it easier to:
- Fix problems without re-doing everything
- Carry out repetitive tasks more efficiently
- Allow analysts to share their work with others
- Provide a recorded audit trail for better governance
- Automatically generate results and create scheduled batch jobs
In this series of videos we show you how to get to grips with SPSS syntax covering:
- The basics of SPSS syntax
- The grammatical structure of syntax
- Getting help with syntax
- Useful syntax procedures
- Creating filters with syntax
- Automating syntax with the SPSS Production Facility
Explains what the DATASET ACTIVATE command does and explores the grammatical structure of syntax procedures
