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Getting Started with SPSS for Windows
John Samuel
Spring 2006
This document is available in the following formats:
Web-based Tutorial
One Long Web Page
Adobe Acrobat
(for printing)
Table of Contents
Introduction
How to Use this Document
What is SPSS?
Hardware and Software Requirements
Orientation
Windows in SPSS
Menus in SPSS for Windows
Toolbars in SPSS for Windows
Status Bar in SPSS for Windows
Options in SPSS for Windows
Preparing Your Data for Analysis
Organizing Your Data for Analysis
Using an Editor/Word Processor to Enter Data
Creating a Command file to read in your data
Inline data
Using Text Import Wizard to Read Text Data Files
Using the SPSS Data Editor for entering data
Saving Your SPSS Data
Descriptive Data Analysis
Computing a New Variable
FREQUENCIES
DESCRIPTIVES
MEANS
SPSS Output
Working with Output
Manipulating Pivot Tables
Printing the Output
Further Data Analysis
Sample Data Set
Creating a Program to Read the Data File
Correlation analysis
Simple Linear Regression
T-test
One-way Analysis of Variance
Further Reading