The SPSS 13.0 Brief Guide provides a set of tutorials designed to acquaint you with the various components of the SPSS system. You can work through the tutorials in sequence or turn to the topics for which you need additional information. You can use this guide as a supplement to the online tutorial that is included with the SPSS Base 13.0 system or ignore the online tutorial and start with the tutorials found here.
This guide provides a set of tutorials designed to acquaint you with the various
components of the SPSS system. You can work through the tutorials in sequence or
turn to the topics for which you need additional information. The goal is to enable
you to perform useful analyses on your data using SPSS.
This chapter will introduce you to the basic environment of SPSS and demonstrate
a typical session. We will run SPSS, retrieve a previously defined SPSS data file, and
then produce a simple statistical summary and a chart. In the process, you will learn
the roles of the primary windows within SPSS and will see a few features that smooth
the way when you are running analyses.
More detailed instruction about many of the topics touched upon in this chapter
will follow in later chapters. Here, we hope to give you a basic framework for
understanding and using SPSS.