SPSS 16.0 Guide to Data Analysis Value Package

by Marija Norusis

SPSS is a widely used program for statistical analysis in social science. It is also used by market researchers, health researchers, survey companies, government, education researchers, marketing organizations, data miners,[3] and others. The original SPSS manual (Nie, Bent & Hull, 1970) has been described as one of "sociology's most influential books" for allowing ordinary researchers to do their own statistical analysis.[4] In addition to statistical analysis, data management (case selection, file reshaping, creating derived data) and data documentation (a metadata dictionary was stored in the datafile) are features of the base software. Statistics included in the base Descriptive Cross tabulation, Frequencies, Descriptives, Explore, Descriptive Ratio Statistics Bivariate Means, t-test, ANOVA, Correlation (bivariate, partial, distances), Nonparametric tests Prediction for numerical Linear regression Prediction for identifying Factor analysis, cluster analysis (two-step, K-means, hierarchical), Discriminant

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First published March 10, 2008