spss

1. Introduction on the use of SPSS
for data analysis

2. BMDP -general statistics package
GAUSS – programming language for statistics
GenStat – general statistics package
SPSS – comprehensive statistics package
MATLAB – programming language with statistical features
SAS – comprehensive statistical package
Stata – comprehensive statistics package
Important software tools for statistical analysis

3. STATISTICA – comprehensive statistics package
StatXact – package for exact nonparametric and parametric statistics
Systat – general statistics package & more on graphycal
S-PLUS – general statistics package
R – A free implementation of the S language
WinBUGS – Bayesian analysis using Markov chain Monte Carlo method
Epi info- Epidemiological and Statistical
Open Epi - epidemiological
Important software tools for statistical analysis

4. Why SPSS software tool?
Easy to use and learn
It includes full range of data management systems
Good statistical capabilities
Good reporting system & presentation feature

5. SPSS
SPSS stands for Statistical Package for Social Sciences.
SPSS can take data from almost any type of data files.
(Excel, SAS, STATA, mdb, etc.)
Most of the tasks are performed by menu selection.

6. SPSS - Release history
SPSS 1 – 1968
SPSS 16.0.2 - April 2008
SPSS Statistics 17.0.2 - March 2009
PASW Statistics 17.0.3 - September 2009
PASW Statistics 18.0 - August 2009
IBM SPSS Statistics 19.0 - August 2010
IBM SPSS Statistics 22.0 - August 2013

7. Base module
Descriptive,
Inferential,
Modeling,
Dimension reduction,
Time series & Forecasting,
Survival,
ROC.

8. SPSS
SPSS uses the following types of files
while doing analysis
Data editor- .sav
Output viewer- .spv
Syntax editor - .sps

10. Click to view data

11. Click to view
Data file :
Click to view variable

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Measures of numeric variable
– Nominal- values are categorized according to some
criterion (gender)
– Ordinal- Categories which are ranked according to
characteristic (low, moderate, high)
– Scale – quantitative ( continuous, counts)
Numeric:

20. Output viewer- .spv

21. A model Syntax file (test .sps)

22. Thanks