SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)

This SPSS data analysis course was created for one reason, which is to help anyone without statistics or mathematics background to analyze data in SPSS, choose the right descriptive statistics technique and write up the result of the findings with confidence.

Firstly, we will take you through the SPSS interface, how to work the system and avoid some of the mistakes people make when choosing variable types and format in SPSS. After that, we will dive into entering data into SPSS, sorting, editing and removing data, and most importantly how to transform any variable into a new variable with recode functions. We will then focus on descriptive statistics in SPSS and you will learn how to run the major descriptive statistics like Mean, Median, Mode, Standard Deviation and One-Samples t-test etc.

The focus of this course is an introduction to the statistical component of SPSS. This is an application-oriented course and the approach is practical. You’ll take a look at several statistical techniques and discuss situations in which you would use each technique, the assumptions made by each method, how to set up the analysis using SPSS as well as how to interpret the results. This includes a broad range of techniques for exploring and summarizing data, as well as investigating and testing underlying relationships. You will gain an understanding of when and why to use these various techniques as well as how to apply them with confidence, and interpret their output, and graphically display the results using SPSS.