Using Output as Input with OMS

Using the OMS command, you can save pivot table output to IBM® SPSS® Statistics data files and then use that output as input in subsequent commands or sessions. This can be useful for many purposes. This section provides examples of two possible ways to use output as input:

• Generate a table of group summary statistics (percentiles) not available with the AGGREGATE command and then merge those values into the original data file.
• Draw repeated random samples with replacement from a data file, calculate regression coefficients for each sample, save the coefficient values in a data file, and then calculate confidence intervals for the coefficients (bootstrapping).

The command syntax files for these examples are installed with the product. See the topic Sample Files for more information.