Spss 12.0 Brief Guide

Book by SPSS, Inc.

The SPSS® 12.0 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 book as a supplement to the online tutorial that is included with the SPSS Base 12.0 system or ignore the online tutorial and start with the tutorials found here.

SPSS 12.0

SPSS 12.0 is a comprehensive system for analyzing data. SPSS can take data from almost any type of file and use them to generate tabulated reports, charts, and plots of distributions and trends, descriptive statistics, and complex statistical analyses.

SPSS makes statistical analysis more accessible for the beginner and more convenient for the experienced user. Simple menus and dialog box selections make it possible to perform complex analyses without typing a single line of command syntax. The Data Editor offers a simple and efficient spreadsheet-like facility for entering data and browsing the working data file.

Internet Resources

The SPSS Web site (http://www.spss.com) offers answers to frequently asked questions about installing and running SPSS software and provides access to data files and other useful information.

In addition, the SPSS USENET discussion group (not sponsored by SPSS) is open to anyone interested in SPSS products. The USENET address is comp.soft-sys.stat.spss. It deals with computer, statistical, and other operational issues related to SPSS software.

You can also subscribe to an e-mail message list that is gatewayed to the USENET group. To subscribe, send an email message to listserv@listserv uga.edu. The text of the e-mail message should be: subscribe SPSSX-L firstname lastname. You can then post messages to the list by sending an e-mail message to listserv@listserv.uga.edu.