SPSS for Classroom Use

• Basics: Windows Interface
• Basics: Simple Statistics

Introduction and Basic Statistics

• User Interface: Windows and Files (same as above!)
  • Configuration Options
• Syntax Fundamentals
  • Syntax exercises
  • Syntax examples

• Descriptive Statistics (see also above!)

• Linux batch jobs

Creating and Documenting New Variables

• Computing new data
  • Numbers, Strings, Dates
  • Conditional computations
• Documenting Data Sets
  • Formats

Exercise 3

Answers 3

Reading Data into SPSS

• Two SPSS data formats .sav format .por format
• Reading Stata, SAS, Excel, and other binary formats
• Reading Text data
  • Delimited (free)
  • Delimited (list)
  • Fixed

Exercise 4

Answers 4

Subsets and Merges

• Subsets
  • Keep selected variables
  • Select observations by their values
  • Select a range of observations
  • Simple Random Samples

• Juggling data

• Merges
  • Concatenate
  • Match

Graphics

• Two graphics systems

Basic Linear Models

Extending SPSS

• Using Extension Bundles (SPSS 25)
• Using Extension Bundles (SPSS 23)