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Visual Binning on a subset of the data file

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Problem

I would like to use the SPSS Visual Binning procedure to categorize a scale variable called SALNOW. However, I wish to perform the binning only on the male cases in the data set, i.e. those for whom GENDER = 1. If I apply a filter from the Data->Select Cases menu prior to running, Visual Binning, the binning ignores the filter and bins all cases. Likewise, if I sort the file by GENDER and then employ GENDER as a SPLIT FILE variable, the binning process ignores the SPLIT FILE structure. I could paste DO IF and END IF commands around the pasted syntax for the binning, but automated cutpoints in the pasted commands are based on a scan of the full data set. How can I force the binning process to use a subset of the data file that fits a particular condition, such as GENDER = 1.

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16 April 2020

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