February 01, Spring 2016

SPSS is a statistical package for beginning,

intermediate, and advanced data analysis
Find SPSS software on the PC (START
MENU) and double click on the SPSS icon.
SPSS can be found in some Academic
Computing Center computers and through
MAVAPPS on a computer while on campus.
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 Data view

The place to enter data

Columns: variables
Rows: records

Variable view

The place to enter variables

List of all variables
Characteristics of all variables

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Columns:
variables

Rows: cases

Under
Data View

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4. Description
of variable

2. Type
variable name
3. Type:
numeric or
string

1. Click Variable View

2. Type variable name under
Name column (e.g. Q01).
NOTE: Variable name can be 64
bytes long, and the first
character must be a letter or
one of the characters @, #, or
$.
3. Type: Numeric, string, etc.
4. Label: description of
variables.

1. Click this
Window

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 Select File

Open
Data
Choose Excel as file type
Select the file you want to import
Then click Open

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Save this file

as SPSS data

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How to enter data from the keyboard?

Click on Variable View
Type name of the variable in the first row under Name
Click on Type
A row of information about the default format of the variable
will show
One can change the format by clicking on the Grey spot beside
the word Numeric
Click on Data View and Enter data in columns
One can save data temporarily on the desktop
One can save data permanently by sending e-mail the file
one-self as attachment
One can save data permanently on a disk
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How to use existing data?

Use file manager and double click on
the file
Example:
Comparing Ages of Oscar Winners In Ages of
Oscar-winning Best Actors and Actresses
(Mathematics Teacher magazine) by Richard
Brown and Gretchen Davis, are used to compare
the ages of actors and actresses at the time they
won Oscars. Here are the results for recent
winners from each category.
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Category

Actors age

Actresss age

C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
C10
C11
C12
C13
C14
C15
C16
C17
C18
C19
C20
C21
C22
C23
C24
C25
C26
C27
C28
C29
C30
C31
C32
C33
C34
C35
C36

32
37
36
32
51
32
37
61
35
45
55
39
76
37
42
40
32
60
38
56
48
48
40
43
62
43
42
44
41
56
39
46
31
47
45
60

50
44
35
80
26
28
41
21
61
38
49
33
74
30
33
41
31
35
41
42
37
26
34
34
35
26
61
60
34
24
30
37
31
27
39
34

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1. Draw Bar graphs separately and individually.

2. Draw Box plots individually.
3. Draw Histograms individually.
4. Draw a scatter plot for the variable actor actress versus separately.

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 Multiply each data point by 5.

Add 20 to each data point.
Divide each data point by 4.
Subtract 10 from each data point.
Compute natural logarithm for each data point.

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 Use Recode from the Transform Data to classify

data.
Get Frequency of the recoded data.

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 Select a random sample of size n=10 from a

population.
Compute descriptive statistics for the population.
Compute descriptive statistics for the sample.
Compare the sample and population descriptive
statistics.
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