Jesus Salcedo

Jesus Salcedo, PhD, studied psychometrics at Fordham and has been using SPSS for over 25 years. Currently at Wiley, he served as the SPSS curriculum lead at IBM and has trained thousands of users.

Articles & Books From Jesus Salcedo

SPSS Statistics Workbook For Dummies
Practice making sense of data with IBM’s SPSS Statistics software SPSS Statistics Workbook For Dummies gives you the practice you need to navigate the leading statistical software suite. Data management and analysis, advanced analytics, business intelligence—SPSS is a powerhouse of a research platform, and this book helps you master the fundamentals and analyze data more effectively.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 06-02-2023
This Cheat Sheet is a handy reference to some of the most commonly used data preparation techniques in SPSS Statistics. It also includes information about the different types of graphs you can create, given the level of measurement of the variables. You'll also find some of the questions you should ask yourself when first looking at a data set in SPSS Statistics.
SPSS Statistics For Dummies
The fun and friendly guide to mastering IBM’s Statistical Package for the Social SciencesWritten by an author team with a combined 55 years of experience using SPSS, this updated guide takes the guesswork out of the subject and helps you get the most out of using the leader in predictive analysis.Covering the latest release and updates to SPSS 27.
Article / Updated 07-28-2022
After you bring data into SPSS Statistics, the next step is to select a procedure. The Analyze menu contains a list of reporting and statistical analysis categories. Most of the categories are followed by an arrow, which indicates that several analytical procedures are available in the category; these appear on a submenu when the category is selected.
Article / Updated 08-15-2020
Our 10 gotchas serve as a checklist of potential causes of your SPSS Statistics woes. Some just waste your time, but others can both waste your time and ruin your analysis. This list reinforces the importance of avoiding these common issues so you can efficiently use SPSS.Some of these 10 gotchas can be confusing at first.
Article / Updated 08-15-2020
You have a surprising variety of options in acquiring your own copy of SPSS Statistics, with a focus on the different ways of licensing SPSS. However, if you either need to secure a copy or if simply want to better understand what’s out there, this article will help you find the best version of SPSS for you. Licensing is not the only choice, but it is the first big choice you have to make.
Cheat Sheet / Updated 02-24-2022
IBM SPSS Statistics is an application that performs statistical analysis on data. To perform statistical analyses correctly, you need to know the level of measurement of the variables because it defines which summary statistics and graphs should be used. It also helps to know the most commonly used procedures in the Analyze menu and possible conclusions that you can reach after conducting a statistical test.
Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016
After defining your variables and entering your data in SPSS Statistics, you may want to check that you have names defined for all your actual ordinal and nominal values, and that you have defined the correct measures for them. SPSS can help by scanning your data, finding values for which you don't have definitions, and pointing them out in a friendly way.
Step by Step / Updated 03-27-2016
Here's a procedure you can follow to read data from a simple text file into SPSS. The file is named awards.txt. It contains two cases (rows of data) as two lines of text, with the data items in the two lines separated by spaces.Choose File→Read Text Data.Locate the file you want to read. The Open Data window appears.
Article / Updated 03-26-2016
The Paired-Samples T Test in SPSS Statistics determines whether means differ from each other under two conditions. For example, you can use this test to assess whether there are mean differences when the same group of people have been assessed twice, such as when determining if an intervention had an impact by using a before and after design.