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Raw Data File to Summary Data File

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By InquisitivePhoenix - 7/31/2018

Hi Dave,

I was wondering if there was a way to pull out specific information from a raw data file to make it look something like a summary data file. I forgot to program the the summary data file beforehand.

Thanks!
By Dave - 7/31/2018

InquisitivePhoenix - Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Hi Dave,

I was wondering if there was a way to pull out specific information from a raw data file to make it look something like a summary data file. I forgot to program the the summary data file beforehand.

Thanks!

This entirely depends on what you logged to the raw data file. For example, if you have some expressions that calculate some summary statistics and you logged those expressions to the raw data file, then you can simply look at / extract the raw data file's final row for a given participant -- that's where the final result will be.

If you only logged raw trial by trial latencies, etc., then you need to aggregate the statistics of interest using your preferred statistical analysis application. See e.g.

- Lacroix & Giguère (2006) available athttp://www.tqmp.org/Content/vol02-1/p020/p020.pdf
- https://computingforpsychologists.wordpress.com/2012/12/11/how-to-analyse-reaction-time-rt-data-part-1/
- http://ron.dotsch.org/importing-inquisit-data-files-into-spss-pasw/
- http://jeromyanglim.blogspot.de/2010/07/how-to-process-inquisit-raw-data-in.html