The Allegheny Colleget has standardized on SPSS (version 11.5) for Windows). The following instructions provide both an introduction to this software as well as details on various procedures that you might need to analyze and understand the data from your research project. 

Contents

An Introduction to SPSS

Starting SPSS 

Creating a New Data File 

Defining Variables 

More on Defining Variables 

Entering Data (numeric vs. non-numeric)

Saving Your Data 

Exiting SPSS 

• Change the Number of Categories for a Categorical Variable
• Change a Continuous Variable to a Categorical Variable

• Descriptive Statistics
• Frequency Counts
• Numerical Summaries of Data
• Bar Charts & Histograms
• Visual Association 
• Bivariate Correlation

• Chi-square: One-Way or Two-Way 
• Kruskal-Wallis (k independent samples) 
• Wilcoxon (2 related samples) 
• Mann-Whitney U (2 independent samples)
• Friedman (k related samples)

Simple between subjects t-tests

Simple within subjects t-tests

• One-way between analysis of variance
• Two-way between subjects analysis of variance 
• One-way within subjects analysis of variance
• Mixed Designs