SPSS for Beginners E-Book

Greeson Ruben

• Herausgeber: MarkHollis
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2021

Beschreibung

Do you want to get better, become efficient, and find new opportunities with this SPSS statistical tool?

If your answer is yes, then this book will answer your questions about the SPSS program. This Statistical Analytic Tool is widely used in several fields, such as competitor analysis, surveys, market research, doctoral or Ph.D. research, business administration, and more. It is a flexible and all-inclusive data management and analysis tool that will help you access better and more detailed knowledge from your data.

SPSS is one of the best statistical packages you will find around that performs very intricate data analysis and manipulation without stress. This guide will give you the basics needed for proficiency on any SPSS version. This book will help researchers and students to process and analyze data gotten from opinion polls, questionnaires, feasibility studies and other survey data. In this book, you will learn all you need to know about how to operate and navigate the SPSS statistics software. 

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SPSS for Beginners

A Step-by-Step Guide to Learn about Statistical Data, Research Methods and Data Analysis Using the SPSS Program

Ruben Greeson

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Contents

INTRODUCTION

Data Analysis Steps

Data Analysis Techniques

QUICK START GUIDE

How to Enter Data in SPSS

How to Define Variables Before Entering Data in SPSS

How to Read a Different Type of Data File

Versions, Editions, and Modules of SPSS

SPSS User Defined Settings

SPSS Windows

MAIN MENU

The File Menu

The View Menu

The Edit Menu

The Transform Menu

The Data Menu

The Graphs Menu

The Analyze Menu

The Add-ons Menu

The Utilities Menu

The Window Menu

The Help Menu

THE BASIC WORKSPACE

Data Editor

Syntax Editor

Output Viewer

Active Windows in SPSS

Toolbar Shortcuts

Command Execution

CUSTOMIZING DEFAULT SETTINGS

Show Variable Names Rather Than Labels in SPSS Variables List

Show Syntax in Output Window

Change Showing Small Values from Scientific Notation in Tables to Decimals in the Output

Displaying Variables in the Data File Order Rather Than the Arranged Order in SPSS Variables List

Change the Century Cut-Off Data for 2-Digit Years

Show Variables Labels and Names in Tables in the Output

Customizing Toolbars in Various SPSS Windows

Changing Unique Value Numbers Used to Determine Measurement Level

Display Color Coding with Syntax

Changing the Location Where Files are First Looked for

Displaying SPSS Syntax Window Line Numbers

Turning On/Off SPSS Syntax Auto-Complete

CREATING NEW DATA

Steps to Enter Data

Adding or Removing Single Cases in a Dataset

How to Insert a Case

How to Delete a Case

Adding or Removing Single Variables from a Dataset

How to Insert a Variable

How to Delete a Variable

HOW TO IMPORT DATA INTO SPSS

Importing Data to SPSS from a Text File

Importing Data to SPSS from an Excel File

Importing Data to SPSS: Shortcut

How to Save Imported Data

Using the Chart Builder

DATA ANALYSIS

Descriptive Statistics

How to Execute SPSS Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive Statistics for Categorical Variables

Descriptive Statistics for One Categorical Variable

Bar Charts and Column Graphs

Pie Charts

One Categorical Variable: Data Analysis

Descriptive Statistics for One Continuous Variable

One Continuous Variable: Data Analysis

STATISTICAL TESTS

Parametric Statistical Test

T-Test

Independent T-Test (2 Sample T-Test)

Paired T-Test

One Sample T-Test

Z-test

Anova Test

Non-Parametric Statistical Test

Chi-Square Test

INTRODUCTION

 

SPSS used to be an acronym for Statistical Package of Sport/Social Sciences, but now it stands for Statistical Product and Service Solutions. It is a software package that can be used for statistical analysis of data in various fields, such as research, market, medical, physical education, education, etc. SPSS is one of the most common software packages for statistical analysis that can be used to execute extremely intricate data analysis and manipulation with straightforward instructions.