processing eprime data

[Paul Warren]

I use a similar strategy to Dave, i.e. E-merge then Excel and then stats either in Excel (with the statistiXL product) or in SPSS. But I haven't come to grips with macros in Excel for stripping out the dross. Maybe Dave could make his macros available?

Paul

Dr Paul Warren 
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Victoria University of Wellington 
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| -----Original Message-----
| From: David Hairston [mailto:dhair at wfubmc.edu]
| Sent: Friday, 24 June 2005 9:20 a.m.
| To: Michael J. Crowley; eprime at mail.talkbank.org
| Subject: RE: processing eprime data
| 
| 
| As a general rule, I do not use E-Data Aid at all; I use SPSS 
| for 90% of
| my analyses, and Excel for transitioning the data between 
| E-Data Aid and
| SPSS. Personally since I know that I'll need everything in SPSS for
| eventual stats, groups for figures, etc etc, I find it easier to go
| there directly.
| So, when the experiment is done, I immediately group it via E-Merge,
| then export into Excel Test format... then I open it via Excel, and go
| through and trim out all the stuff I don't want (Mike I know what you
| mean about a LOT of irrelevant stuff). The nice thing about doing this
| in Excel is that you can easily record a macro to delete all 
| the things
| you don't want, so you can do it again later w/ a few clicks. 
| This also
| gives me a chance to change variable names to be SPSS-friendly, etc.
| Then I just port it back out into tab-delineated text, and import into
| SPSS from there.
| 
| I, too, am curious to see what other folks do... 
| 
| Unfortunately as a result I do not know how to handle the block/ NULL
| data in E-data-Aid, sorry.
| 
| Dave
| 
| W. David Hairston
| Neurobiology and Anatomy
|  
| Wake Forest University School of Medicine
| Winston-Salem, NC 27157
| (336) 716-4481 (lab)
| http://www.wfubmc.edu/nba/XMODAL/
| 
| -----Original Message-----
| From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On
| Behalf Of Michael J. Crowley
| Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:10 PM
| To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
| Subject: processing eprime data
| 
| Dear List,
| 
| I'm wondering how much preprocessing people are doing in edata aid
| before going
| to a stat package.  I've seen that most postings reflect programming
| issues and
| I'm wondering how people are processing their data, 
| post-collection from
| edata
| aid. I'm hoping that his post will open this for discussion.
| 
| Because data is stored trial variable by block, there are 
| many null data
| values.
|  Is there any ideal way for handling this in edata aid?
| 
| Also, some of the data we've opted to store, in retrospect, are
| irrelevant.  Is
| their a way to batch process files in edata aid to drop irrelevant
| variables?
| 
| Thank you for all your responses.  If there is a good response to this
| post, I
| will compile the feedback for the list.
| 
| best wishes,
| 
| Mike Crowley
| 
| 
| 
| Michael J. Crowley, Ph.D.
| Yale Child Study Center
| 230 South Frontage Rd.
| New Haven, CT 06520
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