Quick Guide to Spss
California State University, Sacramento Serge Lee, Ph.D.
Division of Social Work Mariposa Hall, 4025 leesc@csus.edu
A Quick Guide to SPSS Windows[1]
Introduction
SPSS for Windows provides a powerful statistical analysis and data management system in a graphical environment, using descriptive menus and simple dialog boxes to do most of the work for you. Most tasks can be accomplished simply by pointing and clicking the mouse.
In addition to the simple point-and-click interface for statistical analysis, SPSS for Windows provides:
Data Editor. A versatile spreadsheet-like system for defining, entering, editing, and displaying data.
Viewer. The Viewer makes it easy to browse your results, selectively show and hide output, change the display order results, and move presentation-quality tables and charts between SPSS and other applications.
Multidimensional pivot tables. Your results come alive with multidimensional pivot tables. Explore your tables by rearranging rows, columns, and layers. Uncover important findings that can get lost in standard reports. Compare groups easily by splitting your table so that only one group is displayed at a time.
High-resolution graphics. High-resolution, full-color pie charts, bar charts, histograms, scatterplots, 3-D graphics, and more are included as standard features in SPSS.
Database access. Retrieve information from databases by using the Database Wizard instead of complicated SQL queries.
Data transformations. Transformation features help get your data ready for analysis. You can easily subset data, combine categories, add, aggregate, merge, split, and transpose files, and more.
Based on the introductions above, SPSS Windows is a common statistical package for the computer that is used for data analysis in the social sciences. It has a data input window that looks like a spreadsheet. It handles many common statistical and graphic procedures publication-ready output. We will just
Division of Social Work Mariposa Hall, 4025 leesc@csus.edu
A Quick Guide to SPSS Windows[1]
Introduction
SPSS for Windows provides a powerful statistical analysis and data management system in a graphical environment, using descriptive menus and simple dialog boxes to do most of the work for you. Most tasks can be accomplished simply by pointing and clicking the mouse.
In addition to the simple point-and-click interface for statistical analysis, SPSS for Windows provides:
Data Editor. A versatile spreadsheet-like system for defining, entering, editing, and displaying data.
Viewer. The Viewer makes it easy to browse your results, selectively show and hide output, change the display order results, and move presentation-quality tables and charts between SPSS and other applications.
Multidimensional pivot tables. Your results come alive with multidimensional pivot tables. Explore your tables by rearranging rows, columns, and layers. Uncover important findings that can get lost in standard reports. Compare groups easily by splitting your table so that only one group is displayed at a time.
High-resolution graphics. High-resolution, full-color pie charts, bar charts, histograms, scatterplots, 3-D graphics, and more are included as standard features in SPSS.
Database access. Retrieve information from databases by using the Database Wizard instead of complicated SQL queries.
Data transformations. Transformation features help get your data ready for analysis. You can easily subset data, combine categories, add, aggregate, merge, split, and transpose files, and more.
Based on the introductions above, SPSS Windows is a common statistical package for the computer that is used for data analysis in the social sciences. It has a data input window that looks like a spreadsheet. It handles many common statistical and graphic procedures publication-ready output. We will just