processing eprime data

[Tony Zuccolotto]

If you are not familiar with the feature, you may be able to save a
little bit of work by using E-DataAid's "Tools|Arrange Columns..."
dialog.   

Specifically, you can click the Remove All button on the dialog to
remove (hide) all the columns, optionally alphabetize the list of
variables, and then double click just the variables that you want to add
them back in.   

If you save the data file it will bring back that same column
arrangement the next time you load it, and you can then use the File |
Export... option to send the data elsewhere.

If you do this early on in your master merged file, save it, and keep
reusing it then E-DataAid should save your preferred column arrangement
and keep it as the default for that merged file as new data files are
added in.

...not totally automated, but may save a few repetitive steps or a lot
of adding and deleting using Excel.   

-Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: eprime at mail.talkbank.org [mailto:eprime at mail.talkbank.org] On
Behalf
> Of Paul Warren
> Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2005 5:29 PM
> To: eprime at mail.talkbank.org
> Subject: RE: processing eprime data
> 
> 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
> School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies
> Victoria University of Wellington
> New Zealand
> 
> tel +64 4 463 5631/5600
> fax +64 4 463 5604
> 
> 
> 
> | -----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.
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