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Table of Contents

• Getting Started
• Entering and Modifying Data
• Descriptive Statistics
• Graphing Data
• Probability
• Regression Analysis
• Parametric Inferential Statistics
• Nonparametric Inferential Statistics
• Advanced Topics
• Syntax Files

Getting Started Tutorials

Starting SPSS
Typing in Data
Import Text Files
Import POR Files

Entering and Modifying Data

Using Excel to Read in Text Data
Variables and Value Labels
Creating an ID Variable
Recode Variables
Creating a Population Variable
Selecting Cases
Sorting Cases
Standardizing Data
Random Sample of the Data
Stacking Variables
Transformation of Data
Restructure Data Part 1
Restructure Data Part 2
Split File

Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive Statistics
Exploratory Analysis 1
Exploratory Analysis 2
Sampling With and Without Replacement

Graphing Data

Histograms
Histograms – Interactive
Scatter Plot
Scatter Plot – Interactive
Box Plot
Box Plot – Interactive
Matrix Scatter Plot
Modified DigiDot Plot
Frequency Tables
Graphing in Analysis of Covariance
Plotting Residuals
Plotting Predicted vs. Observed
Edit Graphs
Edit Graphs - Interactive

Probability

Compute Normal Probabilities
Using SPSS to Find Probabilities and Inverse CDF
Using SPSS to Find Probabilities and Inverse CDF – Binomial
Generation of Random Data and Plotting Probability Functions
Compute Z-value Given a Probability

Regression Analysis

Simple Linear Regression
Equality of Variance
Multiple Linear Regression
Constrained Regression
Logistic Regression
Levene Test
Multi-colinearity
Contours
Diagnostics for Problem Points
Regression Diagnostics
All Possible Subsets (old)
All Possible Subsets (new)

Parametric Inferential Statistics

One Sample t-Test
Two Sample t-Test
Paired t-Test
Simple ANOVA
ANOVA (with Interaction)
ANOVA (with Blocking)
ANOVA - GLM
Analysis of Covariance (with Intercept Term)
Analysis of Covariance (without Intercept Term)
Post Hoc Tests
Expected Marginal Mean
Testing Custom Hypotheses
Type I, II, III, IV Sums of Squares
Testing Equality of Variance
Model Validation
Design Matrix and Reduced Design Matrix

Nonparametric Inferential Statistics

Kruskal-Wallis Test
Sign Test

Advanced Topics

Partial F Test
Bootstrap 1
Bootstrap 2
Box-Cox Transformation
Box-Cox with Confidence Interval
Box-Cox for ANOVA or ANCOV
Predicted Mean Squares
Durbin-Watson

Syntax Files

You may download the SPSS syntax files used for these tutorials.