SPSS for Windows

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SPSS for Windows

• William Dardick
• Office of Information Technology

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Course Outline

• SPSS Overview
• Basics
• Windows
• Open/Save files
• Data Entry
• Working With Data
• Data Set Manipulation
• Data Transformation
• Data Analysis
• Descriptive
• Inferential

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Basic Tools

• The Main Menu
• Tool Bar
• Dialog Boxes

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Main Menu

• File
• Data
• Transform
• Analyze
• Graphs

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Tool Bar

• Short Cuts
• Open
• Save
• Print
• Value Labels
• Select Cases
• other

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Dialog Box

• Open when performing most tasks in SPSS

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SPSS Windows

• Data Editor
• Data View
• Variable View
• Viewer
• Output
• Tables
• Graphs
• Analysis
• Syntax

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Entering Data

• Spread Sheet format
• Data Viewer
• Enter data by typing in the cells

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Entering Variables

• Define Variable
• Variable View
• Name
• Type
• Label
• Value
• Missing
• Measure

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Output

• Viewer stores output
• Table
• Graphs
• Analysis Results

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Syntax
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Opening/Saving Files

• Opening SPSS Files
• Other databases
• Excel
• Saving Files
• Optional Formats

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Opening Files

• Opening an
• SPSS Data File
• File
• Open
• Data

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Opening Files

• Opening another
• Database
• File
• Open database
• Data Wizard

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Saving Files

• Saving an SPSS file
• File
• Save
• Data base saved as a SPSS (.sav) file
• Output saved as SPSS (.spo) file
• Syntax saved as SPSS (.sps)

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Manipulating the Data

• Split File
• Merge
• Transpose
• Many more options
• to
• change a dataset

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Transform

• Compute
• Calculate
• Function
• Recoding
• New variable
• Same variable

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Descriptive Statistics

• Frequencies
• Descriptives
• Explore
• Crosstabs

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Frequency
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Descriptives
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Explore
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Cross Tabs
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Compare Means

• T test
• One Sample
• Independent sample
• Paired Sample

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One Sample T-Test

• Test a sample against a hypothesized value in the
  population
• Pick the Null hypothesis
• Sample compared to population
• Is it different?

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Independent T-test

• Two samples
• Different groups
• No overlap
• balanced

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Dependent T-test

• One Group
• Pre-post test
• Is there an intervention effect?

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One-WayAnalysis of Variance

• ANOVA
• Like independent T but more groups

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Correlate

• Bivariate
• How do two variables relate?
• Two continuous variables

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Regression

• Simple Linear Regression
• Dependent
• Independent

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GLM

• SPSS and the General Linear Model
• Univariate
• Multivariate

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A whole lot more
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Graphs

• Bar
• Pie
• Histograms

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Bar
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Pie
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Histogram
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HELP!!!

• Help Menu
• Help in the Dialog Box
• SPSS on-line
• http//WWW.SPSS.COM/
• http//www.otal.umd.edu/statsol/

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Garbage IN Garbage OUT

• This data was JUNK for most of my Inferential
  Analysis
• Can always run an Analysis on data
• Doesnt mean you should
• If you dont know the Analysis
• Read a book
• Take a class
• Get Help
• Dont run it

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Instructor Contact Information

• William Dardick,
• E-mail wdardick_at_umd.edu