Duration

2 days

Overview

Contains: PDF course guide, as well as a lab environment where students can work through demonstrations and exercises at their own pace.

Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics (v24) guides students through the fundamentals of using IBM SPSS Statistics for typical data analysis process. Students will learn the basics of reading data, data definition, data modification, and data analysis and presentation of analytical results. Students will also see how easy it is to get data into IBM SPSS Statistics so that they can focus on analyzing the information. In addition to the fundamentals, students will learn shortcuts that will help them save time. This course uses the IBM SPSS Statistics Base features.

Audience

Anyone with little or no experience in using IBM SPSS Statistics
Anyone who is new to using a statistical package for data analysis
Anyone who is considering purchasing IBM SPSS Statistics

Prerequisites

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

Objective

Please refer to course overview

Key topics

1. Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics

Explain how IBM SPSS Statistics is used for basic analysis

Explain the basic steps in data analysis

Understand the primary windows in IBM SPSS Statistics

Understand the different components of dialog boxes

2. Reading data

Import data from different types of file formats

Describe choices on the File menu for reading data

Read Microsoft Excel files

Read files from a Microsoft Access database

Read delimited text files

3. Defining Variable Properties

Describe and define variable properties in the Variable View window

Use the Define Variable Properties dialog box

Save variable properties with data in an IBM SPSS Statistics data file

Use the Variables utility to view variable properties interactively

Use the Display Data Dictionary facility and the Codebook procedure to view variable properties

4. Working with the Data Editor

Use features in the Data Editor

Insert, delete, and move variables and cases

Use the Split Screen view

Copy information from one dataset to another

Use the Copy Data Properties feature

5. Modifying data values: Recode

Use Visual Binning to reclassify values of an ordinal or scale variable

Use Recode Into a Different Variable to reclassify values of a nominal variable

Use Automatic Recode to create a numeric variable from a string variable

6. Modifying data values: Compute

Describe the features of Compute Variable

Create new variables with numeric expressions

Create new variables with conditional numeric expressions

7. Summarizing individual variables

Define levels of measurement

Use the Frequencies procedure to produce tables and charts appropriate for nominal variables

Use the Frequencies procedure to produce tables and charts appropriate for ordinal variables

Use the Frequencies and Descriptives procedure to produce tables and charts for scale variables

8. 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

9. Selecting cases for analyses

Select cases in a data file using various methods

Describe and use the features of the Select Cases dialog box

Describe and use the features of the Split File dialog box

10. Creating and editing charts

Present results with charts

Use the Chart Builder to create various types of graphs

Format and edit graphs in the Chart Editor

11. Working in the Viewer

Navigate through the Viewer

Perform Automated Output Modification

Customize a pivot table

Create and apply a template for a pivot table

Export output to other applications

12 Syntax basics

Use basic syntax to automate analyses

Use the Syntax Editor environment

Create syntax

Run syntax

Edit syntax

13. Menus and the Help System

Use the menus

Use the Toolbars

Use all types of help in IBM SPSS Statistics

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