Kursbeskrivning: Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics (V20) - ILO

IBM SPSS Education is pleased to offer you our courses in an exciting learning format, Instructor-led Online (ILO). Students are offered a similar experience to live classroom training, with the convenience of having it delivered directly to their desktop.

Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics is a two day instructor-led online course that guides students through the fundamentals of using IBM SPSS Statistics for typical data analysis process. Students will learn the basics of reading data, data definition, data modification, and data analysis and presentation of analytical results. Students will also see how easy it is to get data into IBM SPSS Statistics so that they can focus on analyzing the information. In addition to the fundamentals, students will learn shortcuts that will help them save time. This course uses the IBM SPSS Statistics Base features.

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This basic course is intended for:

• anyone with little or no experience in using IBM SPSS Statistics
• anyone who is new to using a statistical package for data analysis
• anyone who is considering purchasing IBM SPSS Statistics

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Students should have:

• Experience using applications, such as word processors or spreadsheets, in the Microsoft Windows, Macintosh or Linux environment
• Experience with IBM SPSS Statistics is not necessary, though a basic understanding of purpose and functions of the software is helpful
• No statistical background is necessary

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Please refer to course overview.

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Introducing 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 on the File menu to read and save data files
• Read Excel files
• Read from an Access database
• Read delimited text files

Variable Properties

• Describe all of 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 Variables Utility
• View variable properties in tables using Display Data Dictionary facility and Codebook procedure

Working with the Data Editor

• Use features in the Data Editor
• Use Spell Checker
• Insert, delete, and move variables and cases
• Use Split Screen View
• Copy information from one dataset to another
• Use the Copy Data Properties feature

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 procedures to produce tables and charts for scale variables

Modifying Data Values

• Use the features of Visual Binning to group a scale variable
• Use the features of Recode into a Different Variable for categorical variables
• Use the features of Automatic Recode to create a numeric variable from a string variable
• Describe the features of Compute Variable
• Create new variables with numer