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Category: SPSS software. These pages describe how to use SPSS, a commercial statistical software program, to manage data and perform data analyses. Articles are arranged by date with the most recent entries at the top. You can find the theme and closely related categories and other resources at the bottom of this page.
Stats: Changing page breaks in SPSS (August 31, 2006)
SPSS often chooses some unusual and unfortunate places to make a page break. You can fix this, according to a helpful soul on the SPSSX-L listserv (MG). Just tell SPSS never to use page breaks (in other words, print a single page and let your printer make the page breaks) by entering the command set length=none in the command syntax window.
Stats: Extending SPSS capabilities using Python (January 19, 2006)
Version 14 of SPSS allows you to incorporate external programming languages into SPSS syntax. This sort of thing is not for the faint of heart. SPSS has built an interface between their command syntax, and a program called Python, and with a bit of effort, you could build a similar interface to other programs.
Stats: New in SPSS version 13.0 (December 7, 2004). I attended a web seminar on the new enhancements in version 13.0 of SPSS software. The most notable change is in date calculations.
Stats: Advanced SPSS methods (May 12, 2004). SPSS had a nice web seminar on their Regression and Advanced Statistics modules. Here are some notes that I took while sitting in.
Stats: What's New in SPSS version 14.0 (August 17, 2005)
I attended a web seminar, What's New in SPSS version 14.0, taught by Meta Brown, a Senior Systems Engineer with SPSS, Inc. Version 14 will ship in October 2005. The major improvements in version 14.0 include more powerful data management (multiple data sets open in a single SPSS session) and enhanced reporting (a new chart builder interface, and a graphics production language, GPL). in the SPSS base product, and easy data validation (validate across multiple variables), easier more powerful forecasting (an expert modeler offers sophisticated fitting of time series models that can now incorporate independent variables and forecast many series at once), extended programmability (more complex functions like flow control and extensibility), and expanded structural equation modeling options (bayesian estimation and data imputation). in the SPSS product family.
Stats: Placing consecutive dates in a column of an SPSS file (January 26, 2005)
Someone gave me a data set with 549 rows of data. The first row corresponded to observations on 06/01/2003, the second to 06/02/2003, and so forth through 11/30/2004. She wanted to know how to get those particular dates in a column without having to type something into each individual cell. Here's how I did it.
Stats: SPSS citation (March 6, 2002). Dear Professor Mean: I'm writing a research paper. When I talk about the statistical methods, how do I properly cite the use of SPSS software? And just what does SPSS stand for anyway? --Zealous Zohreh.
Stats: Importing database files into SPSS
Stats: Date calculations in SPSS
Stats: Importing spreadsheet data into SPSS
Stats: Exporting SPSS graphs and tables
Stats: MDAC and other ways to install ODBC drivers
Stats: Modifying SPSS data (August 18, 1999) Dear Professor Mean, Before I start my data analysis, I need to modify some of the data in my SPSS data set. I don't want to re-type every number by hand. Is there a faster way to do this? -- Impatient Pam
Stats: Inputting a two-by-two table into SPSS
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SPSS Programming and Data Management, 3rd Edition. Raynald Levesque, SPSS Inc., SPSS Inc. Accessed on 2006-Sept. 1. www.spss.com/spss/SPSS_programming_data_mgmt.pdfSPSS Textbooks: A Review for Teacher. Jamie D. Mills. Statistics Education Research Journal 2003: 2(2); 59-70. [PDF]
SPSS Tutorials. F. Michael Speed. Accessed on 2003-02-12. stat.tamu.edu/~mspeed/spss/What's new in SPSS 12.0. SPSS Inc. Accessed on 2003-11-11. www.spss.com/spssbi/spss/whats_new.htm
SPSS Starter Kit. UCLA Academic Technology Services. Accessed on 2004-01-19. www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/sk/ Interesting book: Crash Course in Spss for Windows: Updated for Versions 10, 11, 12 And 13. Andrew M. Colman, Briony Pulford. ISBN: 1405145315 Publisher: Blackwell Publishers - 2006-04-05. [BookFinder4U link] People always ask me for book recommendations, and I am frequently at a loss for what to say. Recommending a book is actually quite difficult, though, because people's needs vary so much. A common request is for a book about SPSS, and the book mentioned above looks pretty good, though I have not read it yet. The description of this book was written by Steve Simon on 2006-03-16, edited by Steve Simon, and was last modified on 2008-06-21. Category: Interesting books, Category: SPSS softwareInteresting book: SPSS 12.0 Guide to Data Analysis. Marija Norusis. I have not read this book, but it comes highly recommended in the Fall 2004 newsletter of the Teaching of Statistics in the Health Sciences Section of the American Statistical Association. The review was written by Daniel W. Byrne. Here's the opening paragraph of the review. Those who teach statistics in the health sciences are often asked to recommend “a good introductory statistics book”. This request is frequently made by physician/colleagues attempting to learn both data analysis and statistical software. Since it is unlikely that these busy professionals will have time and motivation to read both a statistics textbook and a statistical software manual, there is need for a book that combines the two. In my opinion, Marija Norusis’ book “SPSS® 12.0 Guide to Data Analysis” fills this niche better than any of the competing books. For the past 15 years, I have been recommending this book and have received positive feedback from my colleagues and students. The description of this book was written by Steve Simon on 2006-03-16, edited by Steve Simon, and was last modified on 2008-06-21. Category: Interesting books, Category: SPSS software
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