IBM SPSS Statistics Essentials (V25)

Audience

• Anyone with little or no experience in using IBM SPSS Statistics.
• Anyone who is new to using a statistical package for data analysis.
• Anyone who is considering purchasing IBM SPSS Statistics.

Prerequisites

• Experience with IBM SPSS Statistics is not necessary, though a basic understanding of purpose and functions of the software is helpful.
• No statistical background is necessary.

Course topics

1. Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics

• Review basic concepts in IBM SPSS Statistics
• Identify the steps in the research process
• Review basic analyses
• Use Help

2. Read data and define metadata

• Overview of data sources
• Read data from databases
• Read data from Microsoft Excel
• Define variable properties

3. Transform variables

• Compute new variables
• Recode values of nominal, ordinal, and scale variables
• Create a numeric variable from a string variable
• Explore advanced variable transformations

4. Use functions to compute variables

• Use statistical functions
• Use logical functions
• Use missing value functions
• Use conversion functions
• Use system variables
• Use the Data and Time Wizard

5. Set the unit of analysis

• Remove duplicate cases
• Create aggregated datasets
• Restructure datasets

6. Merge data files

• Add cases from one dataset to another
• Add variables from one dataset to another
• Enrich a dataset with aggregated information

7. Select cases for analyses

• Select case for an analysis
• Run analyses for subgroups

8. Summarize individual variables

• Define levels of measurement
• Summarizing categorical variables with Frequencies
• Summarizing scale variables with Frequencies and Descriptives

9. Describe relationship between variables

• Select the appropriate procedure to summarize the relationship between two variables
• Summarize the relationship between categorical variables with Crosstabs
• Summarize the relationship between a scale and a categorical variable with Means

10. Create presentation-ready tables with Custom Tables

• Identify table layouts
• Create tables for variables with shared categorical
• Create tables for variables that represent a multiple response question

11. Customize pivot tables

• Perform Automated Output Modification
• Customize pivot tables in the Pivot Table Editor
• Use table templates
• Export pivot tables to other applications

12. Create and customize charts

• Use the Chart Builder to create various types of graphs
• Customize charts in the Chart Editor
• Use chart templates
• Export pivot tables to other applications

13. Work with syntax

• Use syntax to automate analyses
• Use the Syntax Editor environment
• Create and edit syntax
• Run syntax

14. Control the IBM SPSS Statistics environment

• Describe the features of the Options dialog box
• Reset the display of variables
• Set the default working data folders