Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics (v24)

• 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 

1. Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics
   •   Explain how IBM SPSS Statistics is used for basic analysis
   •   Explain the basic steps in data analysis
   •   Understand the primary windows in IBM SPSS Statistics
   •   Understand the different components of dialog boxes
2. Reading data
   •   Import data from different types of file formats
   •   Describe choices on the File menu for reading data
   •   Read Microsoft Excel files
   •   Read files from a Microsoft Access database
   •   Read delimited text files
3. Defining Variable Properties
   •   Describe and define variable properties in the Variable View window
   •   Use the Define Variable Properties dialog box
   •   Save variable properties with data in an IBM SPSS Statistics data file
   •   Use the Variables utility to view variable properties interactively
   •   Use the Display Data Dictionary facility and the Codebook procedure to view variable properties
4. Working with the Data Editor
   •   Use features in the Data Editor
   •   Insert, delete, and move variables and cases
   •   Use the Split Screen view
   •   Copy information from one dataset to another
   •   Use the Copy Data Properties feature
5. Modifying data values: Recode
   •   Use Visual Binning to reclassify values of an ordinal or scale variable
   •   Use Recode Into a Different Variable to reclassify values of a nominal variable
   •   Use Automatic Recode to create a numeric variable from a string variable
6. Modifying data values: Compute
   •   Describe the features of Compute Variable
   •   Create new variables with numeric expressions
   •   Create new variables with conditional numeric expressions
7. 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 procedure to produce tables and charts for scale variables
8. 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
9. Selecting cases for analyses
   •   Select cases in a data file using various methods
   •   Describe and use the features of the Select Cases dialog box
   •   Describe and use the features of the Split File dialog box
10. Creating and editing charts
   •   Present results with charts
   •   Use the Chart Builder to create various types of graphs
   •   Format and edit graphs in the Chart Editor
11. Working in the Viewer
   •   Navigate through the Viewer
   •   Perform Automated Output Modification
   •   Customize a pivot table
   •   Create and apply a template for a pivot table
   •   Export output to other applications
12 Syntax basics
   •   Use basic syntax to automate analyses
   •   Use the Syntax Editor environment
   •   Create syntax
   •   Run syntax
   •   Edit syntax
13. Menus and the Help System
   •   Use the menus
   •   Use the Toolbars
   •   Use all types of help in IBM SPSS Statistics

• 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