Using SPSS Note: The use of another statistical package such as Minitab is similar to using SPSS

After starting the SSPS program the following dialogue box appears:

If you select Opening an another file and press OK the following dialogue box appears

You then select The Type of file

Browse for the name of the file

The following dialogue box appears:

If the variable names are in the file ask it to read the names If the variable names are in the file ask it to read the names. If you do not specify the Range the program will identify the Range: Once you “click OK”, two windows will appear

One that will contain the output:

The other containing the data:

To perform any statistical Analysis select the Analyze menu:

To calculate descriptive statistics select: Analyze-> Descriptive Statistics-> Descriptives

The following dialogue box appears

Select the variables;

Click the option button to select summary statistics

The following dialogue box appears

Use this dialogue box to select statistics that you want to compute then press continue:

Here is part of the output that appears

To Graph data select Graph-> Graph type

The following dialogue box appears

Select the variable and press OK

The following graph appear in the output

Using Minitab

After starting the Minitab the following window appears:

To Open a file go to the menue File-> Open Worksheet

The following dialogue box appears: Asking you to find and select the file:

You should select the file type and browse for the file that you want to open

Here I am opening the Excel file (diet.xls)

The data then appears in a Minitab Spreadsheet

This data has four Variables: WtGn, Diet, Source, Level

Statistical procedures can be found under the Stat menu:

Graphical procedures can be found under the Graph menu:

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