Introduction-to-SPSS15-(使用介绍英文版).docVIP

UNIT 1: Introduction to SPSS151.1. SPSS Overview 3 Acessing SPSS from Richmond computers 3 1.2. Labelling variables 5 2.1. Defining Variable Value Labels 6 1.3. Saving and opening files 7 1.4. Data manipulation 8 4.1. Computing a new variable 9 4.2. Recoding 9 1.5. Descriptive Statistics 11 5.1. Definitions 11 5.2. Measures of Location 11 Mean 11 Median 11 Mode 11 5.3. Measures of Spread (also known as Dispersion) 11 Variance 11 Standard Deviation 11 Inter-Quartile Range (IQR) 12 5.4. Skewness - A measure of symmetry or ‘shape’ 12 1.6. Descriptive Statistics in SPSS 13 6.1. Mean and standard deviation for quantitative variables 14 6.2. Frequency tables for categorical variables 16 6.3. Contingency tables (Cross tabs) 18 1.7. Graphical output 20 7.1. Histograms 20 7.2. Box Plots 21 7.3. Stem and leaf plots 22 7.4. Bar graphs 24 7.5. Clustered Bar Charts 26 7.6. Pie Charts 27 7.7. Scatter Plots 29 1.8. Editing charts 30 8.1. Changing colours 31 8.2. Adding data labels 32 8.3. Changing font size 32 8.4. Modifying axis scales 33 8.5. Summary of editing charts 33 1.9. Help 34 9.1. The Statistics Coach 34 9.2. Help in dialogues 34 9.3. Help in output – the Results coach 35 9.4. The Help menu 36 1.10. Other topics 37 10.1. Editing an output table 37 1.11. Practical Exercises 39 SPSS Overview SPSS is an easy to use statistical package which can: store and manipulate data carry out exploratory data analysis produce graphs and plots of data carry out advanced statistical analysis Some of the advantages of the package are that it can handle large data sets is easy to use has a good help facility has good high resolution graphics is widely used in companies, research and education supports syntax to automate data analysis It interfaces with other standard packages in that data can be imported from and exported to other packages such as Excel, data bases and SAS output from session window can be copied and pasted into word-processing applications like Word Acessing S