Keith McCormick

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.