SPSS OUTPUT MODIFY – Batch Edit Output Items

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 […]

SPSS Command Types

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 […]

SPSS MEANS – Statistics by Category

Summary SPSS MEANS produces tables containing means and/or other statistics for different groups of cases. These groups are defined by one or more categorical variables. If assumptions are met, MEANS can be followed up by an ANOVA. This tutorial walks through its main options, pointing out some tips and tricks. You may follow along by downloading and opening freelancers.sav. […]

SPSS SPLIT FILE – A Quick Tutorial

SPLIT FILE is a command for having separate output for subsets of cases. It does not literally split your file into smaller files. Subsets are defined by the values on one or more split variables. After running SPLIT FILE, output is reported for each split group separately until you run SPLIT FILE OFF.Example of output […]

SPSS WEIGHT Command

By default, every case in your data counts as a single case. However, you can have each case count as more or less than one case as well. This is called weighting. For instance, the first case in your data may count as 2 cases and the second one as .5 cases. These numbers, the case weights, […]

SPSS Syntax Introduction

SPSS” Syntax Editor window is the second of SPSS’ three main windows. As we’ll see in a minute, this is where we run commands for opening files, editing data, generating results and, finally, saving files. The Syntax Editor is recognized by an orange icon  in its left top corner. SPSS Syntax – First Encounter We recommend […]