SPSS: Introduction for Beginners BeginnersPrerequisites
SPSS is a powerful general purpose statistical package with high quality graphics and tabulation facilities, and a reputation for being relatively user-friendly. This course is for beginners. Basic concepts and use of SPSS will be introduced. The main aim of the course is to give participants a foundation and some background. However statistical techniques are not covered (see note below).
University Staff and Students
Familiarity with simple statistical concepts.
Number of sessions: 2
# | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | |
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1 | Tue 17 Jun 2014 09:30 - 12:30 | 09:30 - 12:30 | Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site | map | Dr D.C. Orton |
2 | Wed 18 Jun 2014 09:30 - 12:30 | 09:30 - 12:30 | Phoenix Teaching Room 1, New Museums Site | map | Dr D.C. Orton |
- Introduction to user interface menus, data views, and output formats
- Obtaining built-in assistance for data analyses
- Simple data entry
- Understanding dialog boxes and output
- Creating and changing variables
- Reorganizing and reshaping data
- Basic data manipulation and analyses - just enough to get started and do useful work
- Preparing data and importing data from MS Excel
- Working with various types of outputs
- Exporting output to other applications
- Working with pivot tables
- Creating and formatting tables and charts
- Describing data with tables and charts
Presentations, demonstrations and practicals
SPSS v. 21 on MCS Windows
- No attempt is made to teach statistical techniques, though simple examples are used to show the principles of SPSS use. You may be interested in the 'Statistics for the Terrified' self-taught tutorial which can be found on MCS computers.
Two sessions of half a day
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