Running simple contingency tables in SPSS is easy enough. However, the default format is inconvenient and doesn’t meet APA standards. This tutorial walks you through 3 options for creating the desired tables: CROSSTABS is easy but requires some (manual) editing. CTABLES is faster but a bit harder and requires a custom tables license. TABLES is fast but rather challenging. We’ll […]
The most basic table in statistics is probably a simple frequency distribution. Sadly, basic frequency tables from SPSS are monstrous. On top of that, they don’t meet APA recommendations. So how to create better frequency tables -preferably fast? This tutorial shows a cool trick for doing just that! We’ll use bank_clean.sav throughout, part of which is shown below. Why […]
SPSS output usually looks terrible. However, it doesn’t have to: you can manually style your tables and charts in the output window. The styles you apply such as colors, borders and fonts can be saved as SPSS chart templates and SPSS table templates. These can easily be reapplied to future output. A little known trick -but a real life saver […]
SPSS offers several simple ways for restructuring data. VARSTOCASES -short for “variables to cases”- stacks variables on top of each other. Its reverse is CASESTOVARS -short for “cases to variables”. It basically stacks groups of cases behind each other in new variables. AGGREGATE adds summary statistics such as frequencies, sums and means to your data, optionally collapsing cases in the process. […]
