SPSS CORRELATIONS creates tables with Pearson correlations and their underlying N’s and significance levels. For Spearman rank correlations and Kendall’s tau, use NONPAR-CORR. Both commands can be pasted from Analyze Correlate Bivariate. This tutorial quickly walks through the main options. We’ll use freelancers.sav throughout and we encourage you to download it and follow along with the examples. User Missing Values Before running any […]
Boldface Absolute Correlations > 0.5 Set Decimal Places for Output Tables Transpose One or Many Output Tables Delete Selection of Output Items Set Font Sizes and Styling for Output Tables Set Exact Sizes for Charts All examples require SPSS version 22 or higher. We’ll use bank_clean.sav -screenshot below- throughout this entire tutorial. OUTPUT MODIFY – What and Why? OUTPUT MODIFY […]
Summary SPSS commands come in three basic types: procedures, transformations and other commands. Understanding this distinction will allow you to get things done in SPSS faster and more efficiently. SPSS Command Types Diagram SPSS Transformations As shown in the figure, the first question is when a command is executed. Some SPSS commands are not carried out […]
This tutorial explains what SPSS datasets are. For a practical tutorial on working with datasets, see SPSS Datasets Tutorial 1 – Basics. Right, now an SPSS dataset is SPSS data that only exists in your computer’s working memory (RAM). Changes you make to it are discarded unless it’s saved as a data file. SPSS Data File and Dataset […]
DO REPEAT is a command for running other commands repetitively.SPSS DO REPEAT is often used for looping over (possibly new) variables. VECTOR with LOOP is an alternative way for doing so. Introduction Suppose we have a variable containing values 1 through 4 and we’d like to dichotomize it for a regression analysis. (For some more background, see Creating Dummy Variables in SPSS.) […]
Introduction SPSS dataset logic is not always logical. However, for working proficiently with datasets, just a handful of basics is sufficient. These are explained in this tutorial. This tutorial focuses on working with SPSS datasets. For a definition and some background on datasets, see SPSS Datasets. Working with SPSS Datasets It is recommended you follow along with the […]
In SPSS, SELECT IF deletes cases (rows of data) that don’t satisfy some condition(s). Like so, SELECT IF basically means “don’t delete if …” A minimal example isSELECT IF(GENDER = 1). SPSS SELECT IF – Some Examples Say we collected data on our employees and the resulting data file is employees.sav. Our client is only interested in female […]
The table below lists all SPSS commands and the additional licenses -if any- you need for using them. This overview is based on SPSS version 22 but we hope to soon update it for version 24. Consult the notes section for some tips on using the table or downloading it as an SPSS (.sav) data file. Overview NAME TYPE OPTION […]
Independent Samples T-Test SPSS Independent Samples T-Test Independent Samples T-Test Other SPSS T-Test Tutorials SPSS Paired Samples T-Test SPSS One Sample T-Test T-Test Background Tutorials Z-Scores – What and Why? What is a Dichotomous Variable?
