IBM: Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics

Introducing IBM SPSS Statistics

• Explain the basic steps of data analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics.
• Describe the roles of the main windows within IBM SPSS Statistics.
• Describe the basic structure of IBM SPSS Statistics dialog boxes.

Reading data

• Describe File menu options for reading and saving data files.
• Read Excel files.
• Read data from an Access database.
• Read delimited text files.

Variable properties

• Describe all variable properties.
• Define variable properties in Variable View.
• Define variable properties using the Define Variable Properties dialog box.
• Save variable properties with data in an IBM SPSS Statistics data file.
• Display variable properties interactively using Variables Utility.
• Display variable properties in tables using Display Data Dictionary and the Codebook procedure.

Using the Data Editor

• Use Data Editor features.
• Use the spell checker.
• Insert, delete and move variables and cases.
• Use Split Screen View.
• Copy information from one dataset to another.
• Use Copy Data Properties.

Summarising individual variables

• Define measurement levels.
• Use the Frequencies procedure to generate appropriate tables and charts for nominal and ordinal variables.
• Use Frequencies and Descriptives procedures to generate tables and charts for scale variables.

Modifying data values

• Use Visual Binning to group a scale variable.
• Use Recode into Different Variables for categorical variables.
• Use Automatic Recode to create a numeric variable from a string variable.
• Describe Compute Variable features.
• Create new variables with conditional numeric expressions.

Describing relationships between variables

• Select the appropriate procedure to summarise the relationship between two variables.
• Use Crosstabs to summarise relationships between categorical variables.
• Use Means to summarise the relationship between a scale variable and a categorical variable.

Selecting cases

• Describe and use Select Cases dialog box features.
• Describe and use Split File dialog box features.

Creating and editing charts

• Use Chart Builder to create different chart types.
• Format and edit a chart in the Chart Editor.

Output in the Viewer

• Navigate the Viewer.
• Customise a pivot table.
• Create and apply a pivot table template.
• Export results to other applications.

Syntax basics

• Use the Syntax Editor environment.
• Create syntax.
• Run syntax.
• Edit syntax using command auto-completion.