WHAT IS SPSS?
- IBM’s Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) is a point-and-click statistical software used to generate descriptive and inferential statistics. It also has the capability to be code / command-driven using the syntax editor.
- IBM SPSS Statistics documentation provides information on SPSS functions, including: a description of each test, the format the data should be in to properly run the test, the assumptions that need to be considered, and step-by-step instructions for how to compute the test. This is one of the best places to go when looking to run a specific test.
HOW TO ACCESS SPSS?
- SPSS terminals are available on fixed PCs in the Media Room (2nd floor, 5e.216). Please use this link to reserve a terminal.
- Installing SPSS is only possible on fixed computers or laptops issued by the university. To know more, please get in touch with the IT Helpdesk Fresh Service.
- This libguide utilizes SPSS Version 24.
GET STARTED WITH SPSS
The IBM SPSS Statistics documentation referenced earlier is a great place to start when you are looking for help on how to do certain tasks in SPSS. This guide contains step-by-step help (and screenshots) for a few common SPSS tasks, including:
- How to use SPSS: The basics
- The data editor
- Data entry
- Importing data
- Compute variables
- Split the file
- How to use SPSS: Descriptive statistics
- Descriptives
- Frequencies
- Explore
- Crosstabs
- How to use SPSS: Parametric inferential statistics
- Pearson correlation
- One Sample t-test
- Independent Samples t-test
- Paired samples t-test
- One-way ANOVA
- One-way repeated measures ANOVA
- Factorial ANOVA
- How to use SPSS: Non-parametric inferential statistics
- Chi-Square Test of Independence
- Spearman correlation
- Wilcoxon signed-rank test
- Mann-Whitney U test
- Kruskal-Wallis H test
- Friedman test
