= SPSS Descriptives = The '''`DESCRIPTIVES`''' command computes descriptive statistics. <> ---- == Usage == {{{ descriptives /variables=foo bar baz. }}} === Statistics and Save === The '''`/STATISTICS`''' subcommand selects statistics to be computed. ||'''Name''' ||'''Effect''' || ||`DEFAULT` ||Default behavior || ||`MEAN` ||mean || ||`SEMEAN` ||standard error of the mean || ||`STDDEV` ||standard deviation || ||`VARIANCE` ||variance || ||`KURTOSIS` ||kurtosis and standard error of the kurtosis || ||`SKEWNESS` ||skewness and standard error of the skewness || ||`RANGE` ||range || ||`MINIMUM` ||minimum || ||`MAXIMUM` ||maximum || ||`SUM` ||sum || ||`SESKEWNESS`||standard error of the kurtosis || ||`SEKURTOSIS`||standard error of the skewness || ||`ALL` ||all of the above || By default, SPSS selects the `MEAN`, `STDDEV`, `MINIMUM`, and `MAXIMUM` options automatically. The '''`/SAVE`''' subcommand computes Z-statistics and writes them to new variables. === Missing === By default, SPSS will exclude observations with a user missing value for any variable. Add the '''`/MISSING=LISTWISE NOINCLUDE`''' subcommand to explicitly allow this behavior, or add '''`/MISSING=INCLUDE`''' subcommand to disable it, or add the '''`/MISSING=VARIABLE NOINCLUDE`''' subcommand to exclude user missing values from only the corresponding variable's statistics. ---- == Data Model == The `FREQUENCIES` command causes all pending transformations to execute, and reads the active dataset. ---- == See also == [[https://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/manual/html_node/DESCRIPTIVES.html|PSPP manual for DESCRIPTIVES]] ---- CategoryRicottone