* QUESTION. I wonder if anyone can recommend software that will show a simple graphic of a distribution -- say, a histogram -- and also a highlighted point in the distribution. I do employee satisfaction surveys and produce separate reports of job factor means for a variety of departments. Currently, we give each department a simple printout that includes the overall company means on a variety of factors as well as the mean for the department. It would be nice to graphically show in each report the company-wide distribution for each mean, as well as each department's place in the distribution, perhaps identified as an n-tile. * ANSWER by rlevesque@videotron.ca posted to SPSS newsgroup on 2001/08/10. SET MPRINT=yes. *///////////////////// DEFINE MACRO /////////////////////////. DEFINE !print(myvar=!TOKENS(1)) GRAPH /HISTOGRAM=!myvar . !DO !counter = 1 !TO !EVAL(!n). COMPUTE mypct=0. IF ($casenum=!counter) mypct=pct. !LET !name=!EVAL(!CONCAT('!id',!counter)) !LET !title=!QUOTE(!CONCAT("Circle represents ",!name)) GRAPH /TEMPLATE="c:\\temp\\IdentifyYourOwnData.sct" /SCATTERPLOT(BIVAR)=!myvar WITH id BY mypct /MISSING=LISTWISE /TITLE=!title /FOOTNOTE='(mypct is the percentile)' . !DOEND. !ENDDEFINE. *----------------------------END OF MACRO ----------------. *////////////////////////////////////////////. DEFINE !main (myvar=!TOKENS(1) /idname=!TOKENS(1)) RANK VARIABLES=!myvar (A) /PERCENT INTO pct /N into n /TIES=MEAN . SORT CASES BY pct. COMPUTE id=$CASENUM. * The variable n created by the RANK above command contains the number of cases in the file. * Write a macro which will give us the number of cases. DO IF $CASENUM=1. WRITE OUTFILE 'c:\\temp\\temp.sps' /"DEFINE !n()"n"!ENDDEFINE.". END IF. EXECUTE. * Load the macro in memory. INCLUDE FILE='c:\\temp\\temp.sps'. * Define a macro which contains each id name. STRING mac_name(A8). COMPUTE mac_name=CONCAT('!id',LTRIM(STRING(id,F8.0)," "),"()"). DO REPEAT r=1 TO !EVAL(!n). + DO IF id=r. + WRITE OUTFILE 'c:\\temp\\temp id names.sps' /"DEFINE "mac_name !idname"!ENDDEFINE.". + END IF. END REPEAT. EXECUTE. INCLUDE 'c:\\temp\\temp id names.sps'. !print myvar=!myvar. !ENDDEFINE. *////////////////////////////////////////////. ******* Example 1. GET FILE='C:\\Program Files\\SPSS\\WORLD95.sav'. * Since each case already represent summarized data, no pre-processing is required. * Next line is just to reduce the length of the output. N OF CASES 10. * Call macros to show graph identifying the population density of each country. !main myvar=density idname=country. ******* Example 2. GET FILE='C:\\Program Files\\SPSS\\Employee data.sav'. * Must first calculate mean salary by jobcat. AGGREGATE /OUTFILE=* /BREAK=jobtime /salary = MEAN(salary). * Call macros. !main myvar=salary idname=jobtime.