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So you are going to be working on SPSS. Welcome to a whole new world of figures, data and statistics. We understand that it is natural to be a little apprehensive before you start using this program to analyze your data or for your class. You must have realized that it is not child’s play to use the multiple features that SPSS has to offer. Don’t worry. Our SPSS tutorial will help you navigate through the whole process and take you through a journey that covers the basic features of SPSS that everyone uses. You might not turn into a pro overnight, but you will definitely be much more comfortable using SPSS. Our examples and exercise problems will help you understand the features even better.

Back to basics

Before we start to work on the actual software, we think it is necessary to go through some basics of the statistics involved. If you think, you already know this stuff, that’s fine. Just skip it or consider it a review before you plunge into using the software. Here are a few things that will be included in “The basics of Statistics” section.

• Research Design
• Evaluation of Measuring Instruments
• Sample size and selection
• Mean, variance, Standard deviation, Degrees of freedom
• T-test
• Analysis of variance
• Correlation and Regression
• Chi-square test, Sign test, Man-Whitney U test etc
• Statistical abuses

Introduction to SPSS

There are two microcomputer versions of SPSS available- SPSS for Windows and SPSS Macintosh. Most of this tutorial will focus on SPSS for Windows, but the Mac version is very similar. SPSS provides a tutorial to help you learn the system. What follows is a description of some of the highlights and a deeper discussion of several of the SPSS procedures used in routine research. In order to use SPSS for statistical analysis, you must first have a file containing data to be analyzed.

The tutorial at last

These are some of the things that we will be concentrating on in our tutorial

• Creating and editing a data file
• The explore command
• Loading an existing data file into the data editor
• Creating and executing SPSS commands
• The FREQUENCIES command
• The DESCRIPTIVES command
• The IF and COMPUTE commands
• The MEANS command
• The T-TEST command
• One way ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
• Scattergrams and Regression
• Multiple Regression
• CHI-SQUARE using CROSSTABS
• Selection of a subset of cases for analysis
• Nonparametric tests
• The SURVIVAL command
• Several commands including the ADD VALUE LABELS command, the AGGREGATE command, the AUTORECODE command and many many others.
  

In addition to learning these features, you will also solve a lot of practice problems on SPSS that will help you strengthen your skills in this area.

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