SPSS 14.0 Base User's Guide

 

Contents



1 Overview

What’s New in SPSS 14?
Windows.
Menus.
Status Bar .
Dialog Boxes .
Variable Names and Variable Labels in Dialog Box Lists.
Dialog Box Controls .
Subdialog Boxes.
Selecting Variables.
Variable List Icons .
Getting Information about Variables in Dialog Boxes.
Basic Steps in Data Analysis .
Statistics Coach.
Finding Out More about SPSS.



2 Getting Help

Using the Help Table of Contents.
Using the Help Index.
Using Help Search.
Getting Help on Dialog Box Controls.
Getting Help on Output Terms.
Using Case Studies.
Copying Help Text from a Pop-Up Window .



3 Data Files

Opening a Data File .
To Open Data Files.
Data File Types.
Opening File Options.
Reading Excel 5 or Later Files.
Reading Older Excel Files and Other Spreadsheets.
Reading dBASE Files .
Reading Stata Files.
Reading Database Files .
Text Wizard .
Reading Dimensions Data.
File Information.
Saving Data Files.
To Save Modified Data Files.
Saving Data Files in Excel Format.
Saving Data Files in SAS Format.
Saving Data Files in Stata Format.
Saving Data Files in Other Formats.
Saving Data: Data File Types.
Saving Subsets of Variables.
Saving File Options.
Protecting Original Data.
Virtual Active File.



4 Distributed Analysis Mode

Distributed Analysis versus Local Analysis.



5 Data Editor

Data View.
Variable View.
Entering Data.
Editing Data.
Goto Case.
Case Selection Status in the Data Editor.
Data Editor Display Options.
Data Editor Printing.



6 Working with Multiple Data Sources

Basic Handling of Multiple Data Sources.
Copying and Pasting Information between Datasets.
Renaming Datasets.



7 Data Preparation

Variable Properties.
Defining Variable Properties.
Multiple Response Sets .
Copying Data Properties.
Identifying Duplicate Cases .
Visual Bander.



8 Data Transformations

Computing Variables.
Functions.
Missing Values in Functions.
Random Number Generators .
Count Occurrences of Values within Cases.
Recoding Values.
Recode into Same Variables.
Recode into Different Variables .
Rank Cases.
Automatic Recode .
Date and Time Wizard.
Time Series Data Transformations.
Scoring Data with Predictive Models.



9 File Handling and File Transformations

Sort Cases.
Transpose.
Merging Data Files.
Add Cases .
Add Variables.
Aggregate Data .
Split File.
Select Cases .
Weight Cases.
Restructuring Data.



10 Working with Output

Viewer.
Using Output in Other Applications.
Pasting Objects into the Viewer .
Paste Special.
Pasting Objects from Other Applications into the Viewer.
Export Output.
Viewer Printing.
Saving Output.



11 Draft Viewer

To Create Draft Output .
Controlling Draft Output Format.
Fonts in Draft Output.
To Print Draft Output.
To Save Draft Viewer Output.



12 Pivot Tables

Manipulating a Pivot Table.
Working with Layers.
Bookmarks.
Showing and Hiding Cells.
Editing Results.
Changing the Appearance of Tables.
Table Properties.

To Change  Pivot Table Properties.
Table Properties: General.
Table Properties: Footnotes .
Table Properties: CellFormats .
Table Properties: Borders.
Table Properties: Printing.
Font.
Data Cell Widths.
Cell Properties.
Cell Properties:  Value.
Cell Properties: Alignment .
Cell Properties: Margins.
Cell Properties: Shading.
Footnote Marker.
Selecting Rows and Columns in Pivot Tables.
To Select a Row  or Column in a Pivot Table.
Modifying Pivot Table Results.
Printing Pivot Tables.
To Print Hidden Layers of a Pivot Table.
Controlling Table Breaks for Wide and Long Tables.



13 Working with Command Syntax

Syntax Rules.
Pasting Syntax from Dialog Boxes .
Copying Syntax from the Output Log.
Editing Syntax in a Journal File.
To Run Command Syntax.
Multiple Execute Commands.



14 Frequencies

Frequencies Statistics .
Frequencies Charts.
Frequencies Format.



15 Descriptives

Descriptives Options.
DESCRIPTIVES Command Additional Features .



16 Explore

Explore Statistics.
Explore Plots .
Explore Options .
EXAMINE Command Additional Features .



17 Crosstabs

Crosstabs Layers.
Crosstabs Clustered Bar Charts .
Crosstabs Statistics.
Crosstabs Cell Display .
Crosstabs Table Format .



18 Summarize

Summarize Options.
Summarize Statistics .



19 Means

Means Options.



20 OLAP Cubes

OLAP Cubes Statistics .
OLAP Cubes Differences.
OLAP Cubes Title .



21 T Tests

Independent-Samples T Test.
Paired-Samples T Test.
One-Sample T Test.
T-TEST Command Additional Features.



22 One-Way ANOVA

One-Way ANOVA Contrasts.
One-Way ANOVA Post Hoc Tests.

One-Way ANOVA Options.
ONEWAY Command Additional Features.



23 GLM Univariate Analysis

GLM Model.
GLM Contrasts.
GLM Profile Plots.
GLM Post Hoc Comparisons.
GLM Save.
GLM Options.
UNIANOVA Command Additional Features.



24 Bivariate Correlations

Bivariate Correlations Options .
CORRELATIONS and NONPARCORR Command Additional Features.

 

25 Partial Correlations

Partial Correlations Options .
PARTIAL CORR Command Additional Features .



26 Distances

Distances Dissimilarity Measures.

Distances Similarity Measures.
PROXIMITIES Command Additional Features .



27 Linear Regression

Linear Regression Variable Selection Methods.
Linear Regression Set Rule.
Linear Regression Plots .
Linear Regression: Saving New Variables.
Linear Regression Statistics.
Linear Regression Options.
REGRESSION Command Additional Features.



28 Curve Estimation 441

Curve Estimation Models .
Curve Estimation Save .



29 Discriminant Analysis

Discriminant Analysis Define Range.
Discriminant AnalysisSelect Cases .
Discriminant Analysis Statistics.
Discriminant Analysis Stepwise Method.
Discriminant Analysis Classification.
Discriminant Analysis Save.
DISCRIMINANT Command Additional Features.



30 Factor Analysis

Factor Analysis Select Cases.
Factor Analysis Descriptives.
Factor Analysis Extraction .
Factor Analysis Rotation.
Factor Analysis Scores.
Factor Analysis Options .
FACTOR Command Additional Features.



31 Choosing a Procedure for Clustering

 

32 TwoStep Cluster Analysis

TwoStep Cluster Analysis Options.
TwoStep Cluster Analysis Plots.
TwoStep Cluster Analysis Output .



33 Hierarchical Cluster Analysis

Hierarchical Cluster Analysis Method.
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis Statistics.
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis Plots.
Hierarchical Cluster Analysis Save New Variables.
CLUSTER Command Syntax Additional Features.



34 K-Means Cluster Analysis

K-Means Cluster Analysis Efficiency.
K-Means Cluster Analysis Iterate.
K-Means Cluster Analysis Save .
K-Means Cluster Analysis Options.
QUICKCLUSTER Command Additional Features .



35 Nonparametric Tests

Chi-Square Test.
Binomial Test.
Runs Test.
One-Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test.
Two-Independent-Samples Tests.
Two-Related-Samples Tests.
Tests for Several Independent Samples .
Tests for Several Related Samples.



36 Multiple Response Analysis

Multiple Response Define Sets.
Multiple Response Frequencies.
Multiple Response Crosstabs.
Multiple Response Crosstabs Define Ranges .
Multiple Response Crosstabs Options.
MULTRESPONSE Command Additional Features .



37 Reporting Results

Report Summaries in Rows.
Report Summaries in Columns .
REPORT Command Additional Features.



38 Reliability Analysis

Reliability Analysis Statistics .
RELIABILITY Command Additional Features .



39 Multidimensional Scaling

Multidimensional Scaling Shape of Data.
Multidimensional Scaling Create Measure.
Multidimensional Scaling Model.
Multidimensional Scaling Options.
ALSCAL Command Additional Features.



40 Ratio Statistics

Ratio Statistics.



41 Overview of the Chart Facility

Creating and Modifying a Chart.

Chart Definition Options.

42 ROC Curves

ROC Curve Options.



43 Utilities

Variable Information.
Data File Comments.
Variable Sets .
Define Variable Sets.
Use Sets.
Reordering Target Variable Lists.



44 Options

General Options.
Viewer Options.
Draft Viewer Options .
Output Label Options .
Chart Options.
Interactive Chart Options.
PivotTable Options.
Data Options.
Currency Options.
Script Options.



45 Customizing Menus and Toolbars

Menu Editor.
Customizing Toolbars.
Show Toolbars.
To Customize Toolbars .



46 Production Facility

Using the Production Facility .
Export Options .
User Prompts.
Production Macro Prompting.
Production Options.
Format Control for Production Jobs.
Running Production Jobs from a Command Line.
Publish to Web.
SmartViewer Web Server Login .



47 SPSS Scripting Facility

To Run a Script.
Scripts Included with SPSS .
Autoscripts.
Creating and Editing Scripts.
To Edit a Script.
Script Window.
Starter Scripts .
Creating Autoscripts.
How Scripts Work.
Table of Object Classes and Naming Conventions.
New Procedure(Scripting).
Adding a Description to a Script.
Scripting Custom Dialog Boxes.
Debugging Scripts .
Script Files and Syntax Files.



48 Output Management System

Output Object Types.
Command Identifiers and Table Subtypes.
Labels.
OMS Options .
Logging .
Excluding Output Display from the Viewer.
Routing Output to SPSS Data Files .
OXML Table Structure.
OMS Identifiers .



Appendices
A Database Access Administrator
B Customizing HTML Documents

To Add Customized HTML Code to Exported Output Documents
Content and Format of the Text File for Customized HTML
To Use a Different File or Location for Custom HTML Code

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