LISTWISE Subcommand (MVA command)

For each quantitative variable in the variables list, the LISTWISE subcommand computes the mean, the covariance between the variables, and the correlation between the variables. The cases that are used in the computations are listwise nonmissing; that is, they have no missing value in any variable that is listed in the VARIABLES subcommand.

Example

MVA VARIABLES=populatn density urban religion lifeexpf region
  /CATEGORICAL=region
  /LISTWISE.

• Means, covariances, and correlations are displayed for populatn, density, urban, and lifeexpf. Only cases that have values for all of these variables are used.