Introduction IBM SPSS Statistics

• Explain the basic steps of data analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics
• Describe the roles of the primary windows within IBM SPSS Statistics
• Describe the basic layout of IBM SPSS Statistics dialogue boxes

Reading Data

• Describe the choices on the File menu to read and save data files
• Read Excel files
• Read from an Access database
• Read delimited text files

Variable Properties

• Describe all the variable properties
• Define variable properties in the Variable View window
• Define variable properties using the Define Variable Properties dialogue
• Save variable properties with data in an IBM SPSS Statistics data file
• View variable properties interactively using Variables Utility
• View variable properties in tables using display Data Dictionary facility and Codebook procedure

Working with the Data Editor

• Define levels of measurement
• Use the Frequencies procedure to produce tables and charts appropriate to nominal variables
• Use the Frequencies procedure to produce tables and charts appropriate for ordinal variables
• Use the Frequencies procedure to produce tables and charts appropriate for scale variables

Modifying Data Values

• Use the features of Visual Binning to group a scale variable
• Use the features of Recode into a Different Variable for categorical variables
• Create new variables with numeric expressions
• Create new variables with conditional numeric expressions

Describing Relationships Between Variables

• Select the appropriate procedure to summarize the relationship between two variables
• Use the Crosstabs procedure to summarize the relationship between categorical variables
• Use the Means procedure to summarize the relationship between a scale and a categorical variable

Selecting Cases

• Describe and use the features of the Select Cases dialogue
• Describe and use the features of the Split File dialogue

Creating and Editing Charts

• Use the Chart Builder to create various types of graphs
• Format and edit the graph in the Chart Editor

Output in the Viewer

• Navigate through the Viewer
• Customize a pivot table
• Create and apply a template for a pivot table
• Export output to other applications

Syntax Basics

• Use the Syntax Editor environment
• Create Syntax
• Run syntax
• Edit syntax using auto-completion of commands

This basic course is for students with:

• Minimal experience in using IBM SPSS Statistics

Also, students that are:

• New to using a statistical package for data analysis
• Considering purchasing IBM SPSS

You should have:

• Experience using applications, such as word processors or spreadsheets, in the Microsoft Windows, Macintosh or Linux environment;
• Experience with IBM SPSS Statistics is not necessary, though a basic understanding of purpose and functions of the software is helpful.

No statistical background is necessary.