You Are Creating an Index Based on Four Variables in Your

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You are creating an index based on four variables in your data set: VAR1, VAR2, VAR3, and VAR4. One of the cases in your data set has valid values for only VAR1 and VAR2. It has missing data for VAR3 and VAR4. For each of the following compute commands, indicate if SPSS would report a valid value or a missing value for this case on the index.
A) __________ index = SUM(VAR1,VAR2,VAR3,VAR4)
B) __________ index = SUM.4(VAR1,VAR2,VAR3,VAR4)

• A) __________ index = SUM(VAR1,VAR2,VAR3,VAR4)
• B) __________ index = SUM.4(VAR1,VAR2,VAR3,VAR4)

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