Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics (v24) SPVC

1. Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics • Explain how IBM SPSS Statistics is used for basic analysis • Explain the basic steps in data analysis • Understand the primary windows in IBM SPSS Statistics • Understand the different components of dialog boxes 2. Reading data • Import data from different types of file formats • Describe choices on the File menu for reading data • Read Microsoft Excel files • Read files from a Microsoft Access database • Read delimited text files 3. Defining Variable Properties • Describe and define variable properties in the Variable View window • Use the Define Variable Properties dialog box • Save variable properties with data in an IBM SPSS Statistics data file • Use the Variables utility to view variable properties interactively • Use the Display Data Dictionary facility and the Codebook procedure to view variable properties 4. Working with the Data Editor • Use features in the Data Editor • Insert, delete, and move variables and cases • Use the Split Screen view • Copy information from one dataset to another • Use the Copy Data Properties feature 5. Modifying data values: Recode • Use Visual Binning to reclassify values of an ordinal or scale variable • Use Recode Into a Different Variable to reclassify values of a nominal variable • Use Automatic Recode to create a numeric variable from a string variable 6. Modifying data values: Compute • Describe the features of Compute Variable • Create new variables with numeric expressions • Create new variables with conditional numeric expressions 7. Summarizing individual variables • Define levels of measurement • Use the Frequencies procedure to produce tables and charts appropriate for nominal variables • Use the Frequencies procedure to produce tables and charts appropriate for ordinal variables • Use the Frequencies and Descriptives procedure to produce tables and charts for scale variables 8. Describing relationships between variables • Select the appropriate procedure to summarize the relationship between two variables • Use the Crosstabs procedure to summarize the relationship between categorical variables • Use the Means procedure to summarize the relationship between a scale and a categorical variable 9. Selecting cases for analyses • Select cases in a data file using various methods • Describe and use the features of the Select Cases dialog box • Describe and use the features of the Split File dialog box 10. Creating and editing charts • Present results with charts • Use the Chart Builder to create various types of graphs • Format and edit graphs in the Chart Editor 11. Working in the Viewer • Navigate through the Viewer • Perform Automated Output Modification • Customize a pivot table • Create and apply a template for a pivot table • Export output to other applications 12 Syntax basics • Use basic syntax to automate analyses • Use the Syntax Editor environment • Create syntax • Run syntax • Edit syntax 13. Menus and the Help System • Use the menus • Use the Toolbars • Use all types of help in IBM SPSS Statistics