jamovi

Hi, I have a variable with 16 different nominal text values (levels) and N=400, and I'm trying to filter out all but four levels. I've tried FILTER(var, var == 'level1' or var == 'level2' or var == 'level3' or var == 'level4') as per the recent blog post by Jonathon but it isn't working as expected. Any ideas?

David

hi,

can you attach an .omv file?

with thanks

Sure, attached.
thanks.
david

hi,

so there's two ways you can filters. either using the filters, or the computed variables. for the filters you can just use:

afl.finalists == 'Melbourne' or afl.finalists == 'Sydney' or afl.finalists == 'Adelaide' or afl.finalists == 'Brisbane'

but if you want to 'compute' a new column containing only these values, you'd use your formula:

FILTER(afl.finalists,afl.finalists == 'Melbourne' or afl.finalists == 'Sydney' or afl.finalists == 'Adelaide' or afl.finalists == 'Brisbane')

makes sense?

jonathon

That works. Thanks for the quick response.