data type
Hi,
I migrated the data from Excel to JASP and the they were automatically set to nominal text. it seems that the drop-down menu of the variable category is locked and I cannot change the data type.
please advise!
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If JASP recognizes the variable as nominal, it suggests some entries (at least one) has a character string. This could be an undefined "not a number" indicator, or perhaps the Excel version you used denotes fractions with a comma: that is, you may think that "2,90" is a number, but JASP expects the decimal separator to be a period: "2.90". If this does not help, feel free to attach the JASP file. I do believe this is more suited to our GitHub page though.
Cheers,
E.J.
Thanks for the reply.
the dataset I used does not include decimals. I attached a screenshot which represents almost the whole data style.
Ah, I see the problem. You used the first row for headings, but JASP expects data there. So instead of "V2", we want "Age", and the column needs to start with "14"
E.J.