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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
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Copyright 2006, The Trustees of Indiana University

IU's involvement in the TeraGrid, and the presentation of this material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 0833618, SCI451237, SCI535258, and SCI504075. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.