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- Fri Oct 25, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: limitations on nominal variables
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limitations on nominal variables
I'm sure you get complaints on all sides, but thought I would advocate for tightening/returning the restrictions around calculating with numbers from nominal variables. It is confusing to create means, show histograms, allow them as regression DVs, etc. I'm guessing the disagreement comes over the t...
- Fri Mar 20, 2020 5:12 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: "Import" is confusing
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2754
"Import" is confusing
The Import feature is great and I get why it is called Import. However, in similar software, Import typically means "open a file that is in another format". Consequently, I keep seeing students use Import when trying to open an SPSS file, for example. They don't seem to pick up on the dist...
- Tue Feb 19, 2019 10:25 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Feature?: Convert Text to Factor/Integer
- Replies: 3
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Feature?: Convert Text to Factor/Integer
Use case: - Ordinal data as text in Excel/csv (e.g., "Strongly Agree", "Agree", etc). - Imported into Jamovi as Text - Want to calculate mean (or do other numeric things like "greater than" to get all Agree's) The only way I can think of is to use Transform to create an...