Drag the selected items to a new location in the outline.
In the outline pane, click the items that you want to move.
You can also change the order in which the output is displayed. The outline collapses, visually indicating that these results are hidden.
Click the box with the minus sign (−) to the left of the procedure whose results you want to hide, or click the box next to the topmost item in the outline pane to hide all of the output.
You can also hide all of the output from a particular statistical procedure or all of the output in the Viewer.
To redisplay the hidden output, double-click the closed book icon.
The open book icon changes to a closed book icon, signifying that the information associated with it is now hidden.
To hide a table or chart, double-click its book icon in the outline pane.
Click and drag the right border of the outline pane to change its width.Īn open book icon in the outline pane indicates that it is currently visible in the Viewer, although it may not currently be in the visible portion of the contents pane.
For easier navigation, click an item in the outline pane to display it in the contents pane. Use the scroll bars to navigate through the window's contents, both vertically and horizontally. The contents pane contains statistical tables, charts, and text output. The outline pane contains an outline of all of the information stored in the Viewer. The Viewer window is divided into two panes. The output produced can be statistical tables, charts, graphs, or text, depending on the choices you make when you run the procedure. The results from running a statistical procedure are displayed in the Viewer.
Click OK to save your selection and return to the Data Editor.
Select String to specify the variable type.
Click the button on the right side of the Type cell to open the Variable Type dialog box.
Click the Type cell next to your entry.
In the first cell of the first empty row, type sex for the variable name.
Non-numeric data, such as strings of text, can also be entered into the Data Editor. The names that you entered in Variable View are now the headings for the first three columns in Data View.īegin entering data in the first row, starting at the first column. Click the Data View tab to continue entering the data. In this case, only three variables are needed: age, marital status, and income.Ģ. You need to define the variables that will be used.
Click the Variable View tab at the bottom of the Data Editor window.
Variables come in many different types, including numbers, strings, currency, and dates.ĭata can be entered into the Data Editor, which may be useful for small data files or for making minor edits to larger data files. The response to each question on a survey is equivalent to a variable. Variables are used to represent the different types of data that you have compiled.
In Variable View, each row is a variable, and each column is an attribute that is associated with that variable.
In Data View, columns represent variables, and rows represent cases (observations).
The information in the Data Editor consists of variables and cases. The Data Editor displays the contents of the active data file.