The provides background information for checking that a run has worked. If you are familiar with Quantum and SPSS, you can omit this section, and go straight to Preparing the Quantum run.

The tab section of a Quantum run consists of tab statements defining the tables required, and axes which define the elements which form the rows and columns of those table and the conditions under which a respondent is accepted into those elements.

nqtspss takes this specification and uses the intermediate files created from it to generate a SPSS data file and data description file.