Example 1: Dichotomous data: Simple control file with data included |
A control file, EXAM1.TXT, for an analysis of the Knox Cube Test (see BTD) a test containing 18 items, each item is already scored dichotomously as 0,1. The person-id data begins in column 1 and the item string begins in column 11. No items will be deleted, recoded, or anchored. The number of data lines is counted to determine how many children took the test. use the pull-down "Diagnosis" and "Output Table" menus to see the output tables. For an explanation of the output obtained, see later in the manual. Run this example with:
Control file: EXAM1.TXT
Report output file: (Enter)
Extra specifications: (Enter)
; This file is EXAM1.TXT - (";" starts a comment)
TITLE='KNOX CUBE TEST' ; Report title
NAME1=1 ; First column of person label in data file
ITEM1=11 ; First column of responses in data file
NI=18 ; Number of items
CODES=01 ; Valid response codes in the data file
CLFILE=* ; Labels the observations
0 Wrong ; 0 in data is "wrong"
1 Right ; 1 in data is "right"
* ; "*" is the end of a list
PERSON=KID ; Person title: KID means "child"
ITEM=TAP ; Item title: TAP means "tapping pattern"
&END ; Item labels for 18 items follow
1-4 ; tapping pattern of first item: cube 1 then cube 4 are tapped.
2-3
1-2-4
1-3-4
2-1-4
3-4-1
1-4-3-2
1-4-2-3
1-3-2-4
2-4-3-1
1-3-1-2-4
1-3-2-4-3
1-4-3-2-4
1-4-2-3-4-1
1-3-2-4-1-3
1-4-2-3-1-4
1-4-3-1-2-4
4-1-3-4-2-1-4 ; last tapping pattern: 7 actions to remember!
END NAMES ; END NAMES or END LABELS must come at end of list
Richard M 111111100000000000 ; Here are the 35 person response strings
Tracie F 111111111100000000
Walter M 111111111001000000
Blaise M 111100101000000000
Ron M 111111111100000000
William M 111111111100000000
Susan F 111111111111101000
Linda F 111111111100000000
Kim F 111111111100000000
Carol F 111111111110000000
Pete M 111011111000000000
Brenda F 111110101100000000
Mike M 111110011111000000
Zula F 111111111110000000
Frank M 111111111111100000
Dorothy F 111111111010000000
Rod M 111101111100000000
Britton F 111111111100100000
Janet F 111111111000000000
David M 111111111100100000
Thomas M 111111111110100000
Betty F 111111111111000000
Bert M 111111111100110000
Rick M 111111111110100110 ; best performance
Don M 111011000000000000
Barbara F 111111111100000000
Adam M 111111100000000000
Audrey F 111111111010000000
Anne F 111111001110010000
Lisa F 111111111000000000
James M 111111111100000000
Joe M 111111111110000000
Martha F 111100100100000000
Elsie F 111111111101010000
Helen F 111000000000000000 ; worst performance: last data line - just stop!
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