Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics

• Explain the basic steps of data analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics
• Describe the roles of the primary windows within IBM SPSS Statistics
• Describe the basic layout of IBM SPSS Statistics dialog boxes

Reading Data

• Describe the choices of the file menu to read and save data files
• Read Microsoft Excel files
• Read from a Microsoft Access database
• Read delimited files

Variable Properties

• Describe all the variable properties
• Define variable properties in the Variable View Window
• Define variable properties using the Define Variable Properties dialog
• Save variable properties with data in an IBM SPSS Statistics data file
• View variable properties interactively using Variable Utility
• View variable properties in tables using Display Data Dictionary facility and Codebook procedure

Working with the Data Editor

• Insert, delete, and move variables and cases
• Use Split Screen view
• Copy information from one dataset to another
• Use the Copy Data Properties feature

Modifying Data Values: Recode

• Use the features of Visual Binning to group a scale variable
• Use the features of Recode into a Different Variable for categorical variables
• Use Automatic Recode to recode long string variables

Modifying Data Values: Compute

• Use Compute Variable to create a new variable based on a logical expression
• Create new variables with numeric expressions
• Create new variables with conditional numeric expressions

Summarizing Individual Variables

• Define Levels of Measurement
• Use the Frequencies procedure to produce tables and create charts appropriate for nominal variables
• Use the Frequencies procedure to produce tables and create charts appropriate for ordinal variables
• Use the Frequencies procedure to produce tables and create charts appropriate for scale variables
• Use the Descriptives procedure to summarize scale variables

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

Selecting Cases

• Describe and use the features of the Select Cases dialog
• Describe and use the features of the Split File dialog

Creating and Editing Charts

• Use the Chart Builder to create various types of graphs
• Format and edit the graph in the Chart Editor

Output in the Viewer

• Navigate through the Viewer
• Customize a pivot table
• Use the automatic Output Modification facility
• Export output to other applications

Syntax Basics

• Use the Syntax Editor environment
• Create Syntax
• Run Syntax
• Edit syntax using auto-completion of commands

Menus and the Help System

• Use the menus
• Use the toolbars
• Use all types of help in Statistic