Introduction to Statistical Package For Social Science
• 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
• 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
Import data from different types of file formats
• Describe choices on the File menu for reading data
• Read Microsoft Excel files
• Read delimited text files
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
Describe the features of Compute Variable
• Create new variables with numeric expressions
• Create new variables with conditional numeric expressions
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 Descriptive procedure to produce tables and charts for scale 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