| SPSS is the most widely utilized software | | | | |
| programs to analyze data. SPSS is organized | | | | There are number of menu options connecting |
| on base software for example, basic | | | | to statistics, on menu bar. There are as well |
| statistical procedures such as frequencies, | | | | shortcut icons on toolbar. These provide |
| t-test, linear regression, means, | | | | quick access to used options. Keeping your |
| nonparametric, ANOVA, factor analysis, and so | | | | mouse on one of these icons for sometime will |
| on with extra add-on modules example | | | | result in the short function for that icon. |
| multivariate models, regression models, | | | | The existing display is of empty data sheet. |
| classification trees, and so on. SPSS is | | | | Obviously, data can be entered physically, or |
| measured by some to be user-friendly as it | | | | can be read from existing data file. |
| uses pull-down menus as an alternative of | | | | |
| command syntax like SAS | | | | Browsing file menu reveals nothing very |
| | | | surprising - lots of options are well known. |
| SPSS for Windows has similar general look a | | | | Though, the details are exact to SPSS. For |
| sense of most other programs for Windows. | | | | instance, [New] option is used to state the |
| Almost any statistic that you want to perform | | | | type of the window to open. Various options, |
| can be achieved in arrangement with pointing | | | | under [New] heading are, |
| and clicking on menus and different | | | | |
| interactive boxes. You might have noted that | | | | Data: - The Default window with blank data |
| examples in the Howell text are performed and | | | | sheet set for analyses. |
| analyzed by code. That is, programming short | | | | |
| scripts, in place of pointing and clicking, | | | | Syntax - One can mark scripts like those |
| will access SPSS, like lots of other | | | | there in Howell text, in place of using |
| packages. | | | | menus. |
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| Presumably, SPSS is by now installed on your | | | | Output - Whenever a process is run, the out |
| PC. If you do not have shortcut on your PC go | | | | is aimed at a separate window. One can as |
| to [Start => Programs] menu and create by | | | | well have numerous output windows open to |
| clicking on SPSS icon. In this point and | | | | systematize the different analyses that can |
| click surroundings one has to navigate | | | | be conducted. Afterward, these results can |
| through numerous layers of the menu items | | | | also be saved or printed. |
| prior encountering the necessary option. The | | | | |
| prescribed assignment was to place the SPSS | | | | Script - This window gives the opportunity to |
| icon in [Start] menu configuration. To go to | | | | write down full-blown programs, in BASIC |
| that icon, one has to click on [Start] then | | | | language. These programs have an entry to |
| move your pointer to the [Programs] | | | | functions, which frame SPSS. With this access |
| selection, before locating SPSS icon. This | | | | it is likely to write user defined actions, |
| series of events can be expressed by typing | | | | which is not the part of SPSS by taking |
| [Start => Programs]. One must move from outer | | | | benefit of the SPSS functions. Again, this is |
| layer of the menu configuration to some | | | | away from the scope of this lesson. |
| internal layer in series. | | | | |