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SPSS

1. SPSS
(Statistical Package for Social Science)

2. Introduction: What is SPSS?
Originally it is an acronym of Statistical Package for
the Social Science but now it stands for Statistical
Product and Service Solutions
One of the most popular statistical packages which
can perform highly complex data manipulation and
analysis with simple instructions

3. The default window will have the data editor
There are two sheets in the window:
1. Data view2. Variable view
Opening SPSS

4. Scales of Measurement
•Nominal Scale-groups or classes
Gender
•Ordinal Scale-order matters
Ranks (top ten videos)
•Interval Scale-difference or distance matters –has
arbitrary zero value.
Temperatures (
0
F,
0
C), Likert Scale
•Ratio Scale-Ratio matters –has a natural zero value.
Salaries

5. Frequencies
This analysis produces frequency tables showing
frequency counts and percentages of the values of
individual variables.
Descriptives
This analysis shows the maximum, minimum,
mean, and standard deviation of the variables
Linear regression analysis
Linear Regression estimates the coefficients of
the linear equation
The basic analysis of SPSS that will be introduced
in this class

6. Descriptives
The options allows you to analyze other
descriptive statistics besides the mean and Std.
Click ‘variance’ and ‘kurtosis’
Finally click ‘Continue’
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8. Bar ChartGENDER
MaleFemaleMissing
Mean EQ1
4.4
4.3
4.2
4.1
4.0
3.9 GENDER
MaleFemaleMissing
Percent
60
50
40
30
20
10
0

9. Pie ChartMale
Female
Missing EQ5
EQ4
EQ3
EQ2
EQ1