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The /EMMEANS = TABLES
subcommand line has
been duplicated and the
new one has been placed
just below the original.
Figure 8.15
TABLES
line for the interaction
duplicated and placed immediately below the original.
The syntax with the
/
EMMEANS
=
What you see in Figure 8.14 is the command structure that actually
drives the data analysis. Every time you move a variable into a panel or
select a choice offered to you by clicking an option on the screen, SPSS
translates your point-and-click activity into a form that it understands: at
least at one level, what it actually uses to guide the analysis is this syntactic
structure. Not that long ago, it was necessary for researchers to write this
structure themselves in order to perform their analyses on mainframe
computer systems.
Locate the indented line reading
∗
reside)
and duplicate it. An easy way to accomplish this is to highlight the
line, select
Copy
from the
edit
menu, place the cursor at the left margin
for the line, and select
Paste
from the
edit
menu. When you have finished
this operation the
Syntax
window should look similar to that shown in
Figure 8.15.
We are now going to add a few words of syntax to the two interaction
lines as shown in Figure 8.16. These two lines can be added in any order.
Arbitrarily, we will write the
gender
comparison first and the
reside
comparison second.
Place your cursor at the end of the first interaction line and, after
typing a space, type the following all in lower case:
/
EMMEANS
=
TABLES(gender
compare (gender) adj (bonferroni).
This
command structure
tells SPSS to
compare
the two levels of
gender
(female and male) at each level of the other independent variable(s) named
