IBM SPSS Statistics Essentials (v25)

Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics
• Review basic concepts in IBM SPSS Statistics
• Identify the steps in the research process
• Review basic analyses
• Use Help

Read data and define metadata
• Overview of data sources
• Read data from databases
• Read data from Microsoft Excel
• Define variable properties

Transform variables
• Compute new variables
• Recode values of nominal, ordinal, and scale variables
• Create a numeric variable from a string variable
• Explore advanced variable transformations

Use functions to compute variables
• Use statistical functions
• Use logical functions
• Use missing value functions
• Use conversion functions
• Use system variables
• Use the Data and Time Wizard

Set the unit of analysis
• Remove duplicate cases
• Create aggregated datasets
• Restructure datasets

Merge data files
• Add cases from one dataset to another
• Add variables from one dataset to another
• Enrich a dataset with aggregated information

Select cases for analyses
• Select case for an analysis
• Run analyses for subgroups

Summarize individual variables
• Define levels of measurement
• Summarizing categorical variables with Frequencies
• Summarizing scale variables with Frequencies and Descriptives

Describe relationship between variables
• Select the appropriate procedure to summarize the relationship between two variables
• Summarize the relationship between categorical variables with Crosstabs
• Summarize the relationship between a scale and a categorical variable with Means

Create presentation-ready tables with Custom Tables
• Identify table layouts
• Create tables for variables with shared categorical
• Create tables for variables that represent a multiple response question

Customize pivot tables
• Perform Automated Output Modification
• Customize pivot tables in the Pivot Table Editor
• Use table templates
• Export pivot tables to other applications

Create and customize charts
• Use the Chart Builder to create various types of graphs
• Customize charts in the Chart Editor
• Use chart templates
• Export pivot tables to other applications

Work with syntax
• Use syntax to automate analyses
• Use the Syntax Editor environment
• Create and edit syntax
• Run syntax

Control the IBM SPSS Statistics environment
• Describe the features of the Options dialog box
• Reset the display of variables
• Set the default working data folders