Introduction to SPSS & SPSS Categorical Data Welcome to IT’s seminar on stat. packages Sam Gordji, Weir 107

List of Statistical Packages SPSS SAS Mathematica MathWorks IMSL

List of Statistical Packages The cost for SAS is $75 per copy per year. 50 Copies are available to the faculty and an additional 50 copies are available for student use. IT has most of the SAS modules but not all. To obtain a copy of SAS please send an to or

List of Statistical Packages Mathematica  Mathematica (free copy for faculty, staff, and students). To obtain a copy of Mathematica please visit: me=mathematica.inc

List of Statistical Packages Matlab  Matlab is available on willow and sweetgum  Other packages such as Fortran, IMSL, etc. will be mentioned briefly

List of Statistical Packages IMSL  IMSL is a comprehensive package containing Math, stat., and special functions  IMSL is available only on sweetgum  IMSL is a set of subroutines called by a Fortran program

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General Information  This seminar covers SPSS and Categorical Data  SPSS, SAS, and Mathematica are available in Weir Student Lab, Weir 107, and several other labs around campus  We’ll look at a few short examples of SPSS

General Information  SAS performs statistical analysis  SPSS performs statistical analysis and is similar to SAS  Mathematica’s main function is to perform mathematical operations including statistics  MathWorks is similar to Mathematica and is available on willow and sweetgum

General Information  IT staff will assist users to access these packages. We also assist users to find the proper procedure to analyze their data. If you need assistance please send an to Sam Gordji at or

Today We’ll Cover  Categorical Data  Creating a simple SPSS program using Categorical Data (catgori_data.sps)  Using Categorical Data from SPSS’ Data file (C:\Program Files\SPSSInc\SPSS16\Samples\1991 U.S. …