Stats #01: Using SPSS to Manage Your Research Data
Content: This three hour training class will give you a general introduction in how to use SPSS software to manage your research data. This class is useful for anyone who needs to use SPSS to enter or analyze research data. Students should know how to use a mouse and how to open applications within Microsoft Windows. No statistical experience is necessary. This class will provide hands-on computer experience using SPSS software. You will also use a simple Excel spreadsheet (bf.xls) and a Microsoft Access database (practice.mdb) in some of the practice exercises.
Objectives: In this class, you will learn how to:
- Import data from Excel into SPSS;
- add documentation to your data set, and
- enter and manipulate dates in SPSS.
Teaching strategies: Didactic lectures and individual computer exercises.
IRB Education Credits: This class does not qualify for IRB Education Credits (IRBECs).
Outline:
- Seating in the computer lab
- Overview of the STATS web pages
- Consulting services that I provide
- Installing SPSS terminal server (draft)
- Importing spreadsheet data into SPSS
- Importing database files into SPSS
- General guide to data entry
- Spreadsheet or database
- Documenting your SPSS data sets
- Inputting a two-by-two table into SPSS
- Date calculations in SPSS
- Stats #01: Practice exercises
- Please fill out an evaluation form