SPSS Statistics Essential Training

Learn all the essentials of using SPSS, a statistical software suite for data management and advanced analytics.

Introduction

• Welcome to SPSS
• Using the exercise files

1. What Is SPSS?

• SPSS in context
• Versions, releases, licenses, and interfaces

2. Getting Started

• Navigating SPSS
• Sample datasets
• Data types, measures, and roles
• Options and preferences
• Saving and running syntax files

3. Data Visualization

• Visualizing data with Graphboard Templates
• Using legacy dialogs: Boxplots for multiple variables

4. Data Wrangling

• Importing data
• Variable labels
• Value labels

5. Recoding Data

• Recoding variables
• Reversing values with syntax
• Computing scores

6. Exploring Data

• Computing frequencies
• Computing descriptives
• Exploratory data analysis
• Computing correlations
• Computing contingency tables

7. Analyzing Data

• Comparing proportions
• Comparing one mean to a population: One-sample T test
• Comparing paired means: Paired-samples T test
• Comparing two means: Independent-samples T test
• Comparing multiple means: One-Way ANOVA
• Comparing means with two categorical variables: ANOVA
• Computing a linear regression

8. Sharing Your Work

• Exporting charts and tables

9. Continuing Your SPSS Learning Journey

• Next steps and additional resources