STAT 252 LAB

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STAT 252 LAB

• The Introductory Lab
• Introduction to SPSS
• Fall 2007

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Contact Information

• Instructor Linglong Kong
• Email lkong_at_math.ualberta.ca
• Website www.math.ualberta.ca/lkong/Teaching.html
  

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General Information

• Software SPSS 15
• Instruction All the lab materials are available
  on www.stat.ualberta.ca/statslabs/index.htm
• Assignment There will be a total of five lab
  assignments. You will have two weeks to work on
  each one.
• Format Must come with a cover sheet including
  name and lab section ID is not allowed to appear
  on the cover sheet.

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General Information---Contd

• Where The wooden box outside CAB 331/335. Please
  assure the lab section and instructor name. LATE
  OR MISSPLACED assignment will not be graded and
  recorded as zero.
• Exam To be announced
• Excuse There are no labs in Oct 8, Nov 12-13.

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Code of Student Behavior

• Avoid any behavior which could potentially result
  in suspicions of cheating, plagiarism,
  misrepresentation of facts and/or participation
  in an offence. Academic dishonesty is a serious
  offence and can result in suspension or expulsion
  from the University. For more detail, see
• www.ualberta.ca/secretariat/appeals.htm

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Announcements

• Acrobat Reader To download or print the lab
  instructions, you need Acrobat Reader which is
  freely downloaded.
• GPU Account To back up your works on GPU, you
  need CNS Computing ID and your password.
• Back up U of A Communications---Authentication---
  WinSCP3 (free).

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Expectation

• Class attendance is not mandatory but its highly
  recommended.
• You are required to finish your assignments by
  yourself. The lab instructor is supposed to be
  here to help you but not to give you answers.
• Discussion is encouraged but copying is
  forbidden.

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Basic Features of SPSS 15

• Launching SPSS, Data enter, Save data and Load
  data.
• Data Transformations
• Compute New Variables
• Recode Variables
• Display and Describe Data
• Frequencies
• Explore Procedure

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Next Lab Section

• Data Transformations
• Box Plot and Normality Plot
• Explore Procedure
• Tests for Differences between Two Independent
  Samples
• Related (Paired) Samples Paired-Samples T-Test

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Questions?

• If you have any question, please feel free let me
  know.