introduction to spss
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Introduction to SPSS. Edward A. Greenberg, PhD. ASU HEALTH SOLUTIONS DATA LAB. January 7, 2013. Files for this workshop. Files can be downloaded from: http ://www.public.asu.edu/~ eagle/spss or (with less typing): http:// tinyurl.com/aa8crpn. SPSS Overview. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Introduction to SPSSEdward A. Greenberg, PhD
ASU HEALTH SOLUTIONS DATA LAB
JANUARY 7, 2013
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Files can be downloaded from:
http://www.public.asu.edu/~eagle/spss
or (with less typing):
http://tinyurl.com/aa8crpn
Files for this workshop
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• SPSS Statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis.
• It is now officially named "IBM SPSS Statistics".
• SPSS uses a graphical user interface.• Most operations are “point and click”.
SPSS Overview
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• Installed on most Health Solutions faculty and staff computers
• Available via MyApps for installation on faculty, staff and student computers via University site license
• Run in ASU Online Applications environment (Citrix) via MyApps
• ASU Computing Sites on all campuses
Availability of SPSS
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Basic Steps in Data Analysis
• Get your data into SPSS Statistics
SPSS can read data from a variety of sources.
• Prepare your data set for analysis
Set variable attributes, clean your data and apply any needed transformations.
• Select a procedure Select a procedure from the menus to calculate statistics or to create a chart.
• Select the variables for the analysis
The variables in the data file are displayed in a dialog box for the procedure.
• Run the procedure and look at the results
Results are displayed in the Viewer.
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• Open a previously saved SPSS Statistics data file
• Read another type of file– Spreadsheet– Database– Text data file
• Enter your data directly in the SPSS Data Editor
Getting Data into SPSS Statistics
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The SPSS Data Editor window has two views.• Data View shows a spreadsheet of
cases (rows) and variables (columns).• Variable View displays the metadata
dictionary, where each row represents a variable and shows the variable name, type, and other attributes.
SPSS Data Files
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Data View
SPSS Data Editor
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Variable View
SPSS Data Editor
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Variable Attributes
ATTRIBUTE DESCRIPTIONName Variable name
Type Data type
Width Number of digits or characters
Decimals Number of decimal places
Label Descriptive variable label
Values Descriptive value labels
Missing User‐defined missing values
Columns Column width
Align Alignment
Measure Measurement level
Role Role assignment
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Variable Attributes
VARIABLE NAME• Variable names must be unique.• Variable names may be up to 64
characters in length.• Names can contain letters, numbers, or
special characters. • Names must start with a letter or @, #,
or $.
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Variable Attributes
DATA TYPE• Numeric
– 40 character maximum length– Integers or numbers with decimals– Dates and times (various formats)– Other variations of numeric (currency, comma,
scientific notation, etc.)• String
– 32,767 maximum length– Can contain any characters
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Variable Attributes
VARIABLE WIDTH• For numeric variables, the width of the
number that is displayed. • String variables can be up to 32,767
characters long.
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Variable Attributes
DECIMALS• Number of decimal places displayed for
numeric variables• Allowable values are 0 thru (width-1)
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Variable Attributes
VARIABLE LABEL• A descriptive label for a variable• Up to 255 characters in length• Variable labels can contain spaces and
reserved characters that are not allowed in variable names.
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Variable Attributes
VALUE LABELS• You can assign descriptive labels for
each value of a variable• Particularly useful if your data file uses
numeric codes to represent non-numeric categories (for example, codes of 1 and 2 for male and female)
• Value labels can be up to 120 characters.
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Variable Attributes
MISSING VALUES• Allows you to distinguish between data that are
missing for different reasons. • You can specify up to three discrete (individual)
missing values, a range of missing values, or a range plus one discrete value.
• Missing values are excluded from most calculations.
• By default, an empty cell for a numeric variable is treated as missing.
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Variable Attributes
COLUMN WIDTH• The display width of a variable in the Data
Editor• Affects only the display of values in the Data
Editor • Does not change the defined width of a
variable.• Column widths can also be changed in Data
View by clicking and dragging the column borders.
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Variable Attributes
ALIGNMENT• Controls the display of data values
and/or value labels in Data View • The default alignment is right for
numeric variables and left for string variables.
• This setting affects only the display in Data View.
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Variable Attributes
LEVEL OF MEASUREMENTLEVEL DESCRIPTION
Nominal Values represent categories with no intrinsic ranking.
Ordinal Values represent categories with some intrinsic ranking.
ScaleValues represent ordered categories with a meaningful metric, so that distance comparisons between values are appropriate.
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Variable Attributes
ROLE• Some dialogs support predefined roles
that can be used to pre-select variables for analysis.
• Roles include Input (the default), Target, Both, None and several others.
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The Transform menu includes routines which perform transformations on selected variables. These include the following, among others:
Data Transformations
TRANSFORMATION DESCRIPTION
COMPUTE Compute values for a variable based on numeric transformations of other variables
COUNTCreates a numeric variable that, for each case, counts the occurrences of the same value(or list of values) across a list of variables
RECODE
Allows you to reassign the values of existing variables or collapse ranges of existingvalues into new values for a new or existing variable
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• Most procedures are accessed via the Analyze menu.
• Procedures are grouped according to type, e.g., Reports, Descriptive Statistics, Compare Means, Tables, General Linear Model, and so on.
Running Procedures
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Dialog boxes for statistical procedures and charts typically have two basic components:• Source variable list
A list of variables in the active dataset. Only variable types that are allowed by the selected procedure are displayed in the source list.
• Target variable list(s) One or more lists indicating the variables that you have chosen for the analysis, such as dependent and independent variable lists.
Running Procedures
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SPSS Viewer
Results are displayed in the Viewer
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SPSS Help and Other Resources
SPSS Help Menu
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SPSS Help and Other Resources
• Tutorial videos (in Flash format) are available from Central Michigan University at http://calcnet.mth.cmich.edu/org/spss/toc.htm
• Raynald Levesque maintains an excellent SPSS‐related web site with many helpful resources at http://www.spsstools.net/
• The CONHI Data Lab can help you with SPSS: NHI1 391, [email protected], (602) 496‐DATA*
• Many excellent books are available on SPSS
* Email probably is the best way to reach us