ARCHIVED: In SPSS, how do I generate a correlation matrix and export it into a new data set?

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In SPSS, use the CORRELATIONS command to generate a correlation matrix.

For example, suppose you have three variables (e.g., age, response, and time), from which you would like to generate a correlation matrix. You can export the correlation matrix into a new SPSS data set. The set of commands is as follows:

  CORRELATIONS
    /VARIABLES=age response time
    /MATRIX=OUT ('c:\temp\correlations.sav').

The resulting correlation matrix will include the number of observations, standard deviations, means, and variable names. The data set correlations.sav will be saved in the c:\temp folder.

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