Visit us on the Web at UM Stats Camp Intro to SPSS for Windows Sam Gordji Spring 2009

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Visit us on the Web at Getting SPSS  Ole Miss Network License for SPSS 17 for Windows  Base/Advanced/Regression Modules  Paid for by IT/School of Education/School of Applied Sciences/Provost  Maintenance paid for by Psychology Department, Economics Department, School of Applied Sciences, School of Education, Political Science Department  Unlimited number of installations on UM-owned computers  No charge to department or researcher  Not generally available for student-owned computers  Computer must be connected to the network while using SPSS

Visit us on the Web at If purchased separately, one copy of SPSS would cost: SPSS Add-On Component Pricelist: Then search for Add-On = $1, Instructions for Use Add-On Components with UM network license: Instructions for SPSS Network Deployment Using GPO: SPSS® Base 17.0 for windows® $ SPSS Advanced Models TM 17.0 for windows®$ SPSS Regression Models TM 17.0 for windows ®$539.00

Visit us on the Web at Student Licensing Options Order SPSS Student Version or SPSS Graduate Pack Online: Learn more:  SPSS Student Version - $100 Up to 50 variables & 1,500 cases No scripting/syntax/automation  SPSS Graduate Pack - $200 No variable/case limits Base/Advanced/Regression/AMOS

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Visit us on the Web at Click on “Download the SPSS 17 software (600MB SPSS.zip)” to download and saveDownload the SPSS 17 software

Visit us on the Web at Getting SPSS Installation Help  IT Helpdesk    Hours 8:00 – 5:00

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Visit us on the Web at SPSS 17 is Installed on 54 Windows PCs in the Galtney Center Student Lab Hours:  Sunday 1:00 p.m. to Friday 5:00 p.m. (open 24 hours)  Saturday 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Visit us on the Web at SPSS 17 is Installed in Academic Departmental Labs Departmental SPSS Labs:  School of Education  Economics Dept.  others…

SPSS on MAC  SPSS (Windows) may be installed on a MAC  A program called Parallels Desktop is needed to install SPSS (Windows) on a MAC and costs about $80.00, please visit:  VMware Fusion is also a program that lets users run Windows on a MAC and costs about $40.00, please visit:  SPSS does not support running SPSS17 on a Parallels Desktop or VMware  Please assist for more information:

Starting SPSS  Download freq.sps  To start SPSS go to: Start>All Programs>SPSS Inc>SPSS17.0>SPSS Statistics 17.0  Click “SPSS Statistics 17.0” to start SPSS17.0  Click “cancel” to close the Window “What would you like to do?”  On “Untitled1 Window” Choose File>Open>Syntax  Under Desktop, click freq.sps  Choose run>all, to run freq.sps

Text copy of freq.sps  DATA LIST /male 1-2 female 4-6.  /* This is an example of Frequencies, date modified 1/29/09, Sam Gordji */  variable labels male 'male over 20' female 'female over 20'.  BEGIN DATA.   .... Some data are not shown here. ....     end data. /* SPSS is not case sensitive */  FREQUENCIES VARIABLES=male female/  STATISTICS=MEDIAN MODE DEFAULT/.

A Few Programming Notes About freq.sps  Comments are placed between “ /* ” and “ */ ” Example: /* This is a comment */  Example: freq.sps DATA LIST /male 1-2 female 4-6 DATA LIST signals the start of a program This program has only 2 variables, male and female Variable male is on columns 1-2 Variable female is on columns 4-6

Download and run oneway.sps

Results of Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) from oneway.sps ANOVA DEP Sum of Squares Degrees of Freedom (df) Mean Square Results (F) Significant level Between Groups Within Groups Total

Next Slide is the Actual Output from SPSS

Practicing “Point” and “Click”  Go to Untitled2  Choose Analyze>Descriptive Statistics>Frequencies  Choose variable DEP and perform the analysis  Choose another statistics, e.g. Correlate and find the correlation between the two variables

Creating and Running a Short SPSS Program  Close all SPSS’ Windows  Open SPSS and enter the following data in Untitled1  2 3  3 3  4 5  Obtain the Frequencies for the above data by  Analyze> Descriptive Statistics>Frequencies

Exercise: Creating Crosstab  Close all the SPSS Windows  Open SPSS and create a 3 by 6 matrix (3 rows and 6 columns)  Find Crosstabs under analyze and obtain the Crosstab

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