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bug #44264: MEANS procedure produces surprising and incompatible output

Submitter:  Ben Pfaff <blp>
Submitted:  Sun 15 Feb 2015 10:19:07 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Output Driver Severity:  5 - Average
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  None
Effort:  0.00
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Thu 20 Jun 2019 06:28:55 PM UTC, comment #3: 

I have pushed a complete re-implementation of the MEANS procedure, which I think fixes this problem.

John Darrington <jmd>
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Sun 08 Oct 2017 01:25:10 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Dana Williams provided some additional information about this.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2017-09/msg00008.html

John Darrington <jmd>
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Mon 16 Feb 2015 12:44:52 AM UTC, comment #1: 

After reading this bug report carefully and studying the output, it looks to me like proper support for pivot tables in the PSPP output engine is the solution.  That's something I'm working on, but it's not an easy fix, so it will take a while.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
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Sun 15 Feb 2015 10:19:07 PM UTC, original submission:  

Zoltán Fábián <fabian@tarki.hu> reported on the pspp-users mailing list, archived at http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/pspp-users/2015-01/msg00077.html, the following (the attachments are uploaded to this bug report):

User guide (version 0.8.4) writes:

"More than one table can be specified in a single command. Each table is separated by a ‘/’. For example
MEANS TABLES =
c d e BY x
/a b BY x y
/f BY y BY z.
has three tables (the ‘TABLE =’ is optional). The first table has three dependent variables c, d and e and a single categorical variable x. The second table has two dependent variables a and b, and two categorical variables x and y. The third table has a single dependent variables f and a categorical variable formed by the combination of y and z." (p. 139)

The emphasis is on the third table. PSPP produces two tables for means of f by y and mean of f by x, rather than one for mean f by combination of y and z.
SPSS can do it. I have attached two sample outputs. One for PSPP, and one for SPSS.
It would be very useful to resolve this issue.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
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file #33087:  pspp_means_example.pdf added by blp (40KiB - application/download)
file #33088:  spss_means_example.pdf added by blp (14KiB - application/download)

 

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