Course Outline
Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics
- Review basic concepts in IBM SPSS Statistics
- Identify the steps in the research process
- Review basic analyses
- Use Help
Reading data and defining metadata
- Overview of data sources
- Read from text files
- Read data from Microsoft Excel
- Read data from databases
- Define variable properties
Selecting cases for analyses
- Select cases for analyses
- Run analyses for groups
- Apply report authoring styles
Transforming variables
- Compute variables
- Recode values of categorical and scale variables
- Create a numeric variable from a string variable
Using functions to transform variables
- Use statistical functions
- Use logical functions
- Use missing value functions
- Use conversion functions
- Use system variables
- Use the Date and Time Wizard
Setting the unit of analysis
- Remove duplicate cases
- Create aggregate datasets
- Restructure datasets
Merging data files
- Add cases from one dataset to another
- Add variables from one dataset to another
- Enrich a dataset with aggregated information
Summarizing individual variables
- Define levels of measurement
- Summarizing categorical variables
- Summarizing scale variables
Describing the relationship between variables
- Choose the appropriate procedure
- Summarize the relationship between categorical variables
- Summarize the relationship between a scale and a categorical variable
Creating presentation-ready tables with Custom Tables
- Identify table layouts
- Create tables for variables with shared categories
- Create tables for multiple response questions
Customizing pivot tables
- Perform Automated Output Modification
- Customize pivot tables Use table templates
- Export pivot tables to other applications
Working with syntax
- Use syntax to automate analyses
- Create, edit, and run syntax
- Shortcuts in the Syntax Editor
Controlling the IBM SPSS Statistics environment
- Set options for output
- Set options for variables display
- Set options for default working folders
Objective
Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics
- Review basic concepts in IBM SPSS Statistics
- Identify the steps in the research process
- Review basic analyses
- Use Help
Reading data and defining metadata
- Overview of data sources
- Read from text files
- Read data from Microsoft Excel
- Read data from databases
- Define variable properties
Selecting cases for analyses
- Select cases for analyses
- Run analyses for groups
- Apply report authoring styles
Transforming variables
- Compute variables
- Recode values of categorical and scale variables
- Create a numeric variable from a string variable
Using functions to transform variables
- Use statistical functions
- Use logical functions
- Use missing value functions
- Use conversion functions
- Use system variables
- Use the Date and Time Wizard
Setting the unit of analysis
- Remove duplicate cases
- Create aggregate datasets
- Restructure datasets
Merging data files
- Add cases from one dataset to another
- Add variables from one dataset to another
- Enrich a dataset with aggregated information
Summarizing individual variables
- Define levels of measurement
- Summarizing categorical variables
- Summarizing scale variables
Describing the relationship between variables
- Choose the appropriate procedure
- Summarize the relationship between categorical variables
- Summarize the relationship between a scale and a categorical variable
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