Having a solid understanding of what SPSS time variables are, you may find calculations on them surprisingly easy. This tutorial will demonstrate SPSS’ main time functions. However, we’ll also show that we often don’t even need them for getting things done. Throughout this tutorial, keep in mind that SPSS time variables contain time spans in numbers of […]
SPSS FORMATS sets formats -decimal places, dates, percent signs and more- for numeric variables. Setting variable formats in SPSS does not change your actual data values. However, formats determine how your data are displayed -in the data viewer as well as the output-window. Two main uses of FORMATS are increasing or decreasing the decimal places of standard numeric variables; displaying date, time and datetime values (consisting […]
Introduction Having a basic understanding of SPSS numeric variables allows you to work fast and with a sense of confidence. This tutorial aims at accomplishing just that by pointing out some essential basics. You may follow along with this tutorial by downloading and opening hospital.sav. SPSS Numeric Variables – What Are They? Numeric variables are one of […]
Introduction Working efficiently with SPSS time variables is not hard if you understand some basics. This tutorial walks you through just those. We recommend you follow along by downloading and opening hospital.sav. SPSS Time Variables – What Are They? SPSS time variables are variables that hold time intervals in numbers of seconds. Although the actual time values […]
