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5 Command file: Reading the data 53• in the last two forms a value is assigned to the target field. For example,... !V22=V11 ... copies (existing) field 11 into field 22. Such a statementwould typically be followed by more transformations. If there are fewer than22 variables labelled then V22 is used in the transformation stage but not keptfor analysis.Table 5.1: List of transformation qualifiers and their actions with examplesqualifier argument action examples!=, !+, !-, !*,!/vusual arithmetic meaning; note that,0/0 gives 0 but v/0 gives a missingvalue where v is not 0.!^ v raises the data (which must be positive)to the power v.!^ 0 takes natural logarithms of the data(which must be positive).!^ −1 takes reciprocal of data (data must bepositive).!>, !10yieldABSyield !=yield !ABSGerm TotalASG !=Germ !ARCSIN TotalDayCosDay !=Day !COS 365yield !D

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