This document provides an overview of using the statistical software package SPSS. It discusses the four main windows in SPSS - the data editor, output viewer, syntax editor, and script window. It also covers the basics of managing data files, including opening SPSS, defining variables, and saving data. Finally, it demonstrates some common analyses in SPSS including frequencies, descriptives, and linear regression as well as how to interpret the outputs and plot regression lines. The overall purpose is to introduce the basics of using SPSS to perform statistical analysis and data management.
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1. USES OF SPSS
PACKAGE FOR DATA
ANALYSIS
PRESENTED BY
MD.SHAHADAT HOSSEN
BANGLADESH
2. Object of the Course
About the four-windows in SPSS
The basics of managing data files
The basic analysis in SPSS
3. 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
4. The Four Windows:
Data editor
Output viewer
Syntax editor
Script window
5. The Four Windows: Data Editor
Data Editor
Spreadsheet-like system for defining, entering, editing,
and displaying data. Extension of the saved file will be
sav.
6. The Four Windows: Output Viewer
Output Viewer
Displays output and errors. Extension of the saved file will
be spv.
7. The Four Windows: Syntax editor
Syntax Editor
Text editor for syntax composition. Extension of the
saved file will be sps.
8. The Four Windows: Script Window
Script Window
Provides the opportunity to write full-blown programs,
in a BASIC-like language. Text editor for syntax
composition. Extension of the saved file will be sbs.
11. Opening SPSS
The default window will have the data editor
There are two sheets in the window:
1. Data view 2. Variable view
12. Data View window
The Data View window
This sheet is visible when you first open the Data Editor
and this sheet contains the data
Click on the tab labeled Variable View
Click
13. Variable View window
This sheet contains information about the data set that is stored
with the dataset
Name
The first character of the variable name must be alphabetic
Variable names must be unique, and have to be less than 64
characters.
Spaces are NOT allowed.
14. Variable View window: Type
Type
Click on the type box. The two basic types of variables
that you will use are numeric and string. This column
enables you to specify the type of variable.
15. Variable View window: Width
Width
Width allows you to determine the number of
characters SPSS will allow to be entered for the
variable
16. Variable View window: Decimals
Decimals
Number of decimals
It has to be less than or equal to 16
3.14159265
17. Variable View window: Label
Label
You can specify the details of the variable
You can write characters with spaces up to 256
characters
18. Variable View window: Values
Values
This is used and to suggest which
numbers represent which categories when
the variable represents a category
19. Defining the value labels
Click the cell in the values column as shown below
For the value, and the label, you can put up to 60
characters.
After defining the values click add and then click OK.
Click
20. Practice 1
How would you put the following information into
SPSS?
Name Gender Height
JAUNITA 2 5.4
SALLY 2 5.3
DONNA 2 5.6
SABRINA 2 5.7
JOHN 1 5.7
MARK 1 6
ERIC 1 6.4
BRUCE 1 5.9
Value = 1 represents Male and Value = 2 represents Female
23. Saving the data
To save the data file you created simply click file and
click save as. You can save the file in different forms
by clicking Save as type.
Click
25. Sorting the data (contd)
Double Click Name of the students. Then click
ok.
Click
Click
26. Practice 2
How would you sort the data by the
Height of students in descending order?
Answer
Click data, sort cases, double click height of
students, click descending, and finally click
ok.
28. Transforming data (contd)
Example: Adding a new variable named lnheight which is
the natural log of height
Type in lnheight in the Target Variable box. Then type in
ln(height) in the Numeric Expression box. Click OK
Click
32. The basic analysis of SPSS that will
be introduced in this class
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
33. Opening the sample data
Open Employee data.sav from the SPSS
Go to File, Open, and Click Data
34. Opening the sample data
Go to Program Files, SPSSInc, SPSS16, and
Samples folder.
Open Employee Data.sav file
35. Frequencies
Click Analyze, Descriptive statistics, then
click Frequencies
36. Frequencies
Click gender and put it into the variable box.
Click Charts.
Then click Bar charts and click Continue.
Click Click
39. Using the Syntax editor
Click Analyze, Descriptive statistics, then
click Frequencies.
Put Gender in the Variable(s) box.
Then click Charts, Bar charts, and click
Continue.
Click Paste.
Click
40. Using the Syntax editor
Highlight the commands in the Syntax editor
and then click the run icon.
You can do the same thing by right clicking the
highlighted area and then by clicking Run
Current
Click
Right
Click!
41. Practice 4
Do a frequency analysis on the
variable minority
Create pie charts for it
Do the same analysis using the
syntax editor
44. Descriptives
Click Analyze, Descriptive statistics, then
click Descriptives
Click Educational level and Beginning
Salary, and put it into the variable box.
Click Options
Click
45. Descriptives
The options allows you to analyze other
descriptive statistics besides the mean and Std.
Click variance and kurtosis
Finally click Continue
Click
Click
46. Descriptives
Finally Click OK in the Descriptives box. You will
be able to see the result of the analysis.
47. Regression Analysis
Click Analyze, Regression, then click
Linear from the main menu.
48. Regression Analysis
salbegin =b +b edu +e 0 1
For example lets analyze the model
Put Beginning Salary as Dependent and Educational Level as
Independent.
Click Click
50. Plotting the regression line
Click Graphs, Legacy Dialogs,
Interactive, and Scatterplot from the
main menu.
51. Plotting the regression line
Drag Current Salary into the vertical axis box
and Beginning Salary in the horizontal axis box.
Click Fit bar. Make sure the Method is
regression in the Fit box. Then click OK.
Click Set this to
Regression!
53. Practice 5
Find out whether or not the previous
experience of workers has any affect
on their beginning salary?
Take the variable salbegin, and
prevexp as dependent and independent
variables respectively.
Plot the regression line for the above
analysis using the scatter plot menu.
56. Click on the fit tab to make
sure the method is regression
58. CONCLUSION
SPSS for windows is a computer package
that will perform a wide variety of
statistical procedures.
Data management and analysis can be
handled well with SPSS.
Using SPSS we can manipulate data, make
graphs and perform statistical techniques
varying from means to regression.
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