Spss intro for engineering
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This document provides an introduction and overview of SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences). It discusses opening SPSS and the main windows, including the Data View and Variable View. It also covers importing data from Excel, entering data directly, sorting data, basic analyses like frequencies and descriptives, and saving data files. The document is intended as an introduction for learning the basics of managing and analyzing data in SPSS.
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Spss intro for engineering
- 2. Object of the class About the windows in SPSS The basics of managing data files The basic analysis in SPSS
- 3. Introduction: What is SPSS? Originally it is an acronym of Statistical Package for the Social Science but now it stands for Statistical Product and Service Solutions One of the most popular statistical packages which can perform highly complex data manipulation and analysis with simple instructions
- 4. Opening SPSS Download an SPSS program nd set up in your PC Start → All Programs → SPSS Inc→ SPSS 17.0 → SPSS 21.0
- 5. Opening SPSS The default window will have the data editor There are two sheets in the window: 1. Data view 2. Variable view
- 6. Data view
- 7. To import data from excel After you have kept only your required districts as per your province then, 1. Open yellow folder top left of the SPSS and type excel file 2. Automatically it will be copied to spss 3. name this spss file Or Or you can just delet unwanted districts row wise opening data view
- 8. 8 Enter data in SPSS directly or import from Excel file
- 9. Data View window The Data View window This sheet is visible when you first open the Data Editor and this sheet contains the data Click on the tab labeled Variable View Click
- 11. Variable View window This sheet contains information about the data set that is stored with the dataset Name The first character of the variable name must be alphabetic Variable names must be unique, and have to be less than 64 characters. Spaces are NOT allowed.
- 12. Variable View window: Type Type Click on the ‘type’ box. The two basic types of variables that you will use are numeric and string. This column enables you to specify the type of variable.
- 13. Variable View window: Width Width Width allows you to determine the number of characters SPSS will allow to be entered for the variable
- 14. Variable View window: Decimals Decimals Number of decimals It has to be less than or equal to 16 3.14159265
- 15. Variable View window: Label Label You can specify the details of the variable You can write characters with spaces up to 256 characters
- 16. Variable View window: Values Values This is used and to suggest which numbers represent which categories when the variable represents a category
- 17. YOUR TASKS After you removed / deleted unrelated districts ; 1. go to ANALYZ at the top of DATA VIEW, and prepare one way table and two way table from 1.1 Go to Frequencies (in analyze) and click on required variables like districts, vdc, disaster, frequency via an arrow on right screen and click ok 1.2 For multiple (two variables at time) 1.2. go to analyze and click crosstabs and
- 18. Output Viewer Output Viewer Displays output and errors. Extension of the saved file will be “spv.”
- 19. Saving the data To save the data file you created simply click ‘file’ and click ‘save as.’ You can save the file in different forms by clicking “Save as type.” Click
- 20. Sorting the data Click ‘Data’ and then click Sort Cases
- 21. Sorting the data (cont’d) Double Click ‘Name of the students.’ Then click ok. Click Click
- 23. The basic analysis of SPSS that will be introduced in this class Frequencies This analysis produces frequency tables showing frequency counts and percentages of the values of individual variables. Descriptives This analysis shows the maximum, minimum, mean, and standard deviation of the variables Linear regression analysis Linear Regression estimates the coefficients of the linear equation
- 24. Opening the sample data Open ‘Employee data.sav’ from the SPSS Go to “File,” “Open,” and Click Data
- 25. Opening the sample data Go to Program Files,” “SPSSInc,” “SPSS16,” and “Samples” folder. Open “Employee Data.sav” file
- 26. Frequencies Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then click ‘Frequencies’
- 27. Frequencies Click gender and put it into the variable box. Click ‘Charts.’ Then click ‘Bar charts’ and click ‘Continue.’ Click Click
- 28. Frequencies Finally Click OK in the Frequencies box. Click
- 30. Practice 4 Do a frequency analysis on the variable “minority” Create pie charts for it
- 32. Answer Click
- 33. Descriptives Click ‘Analyze,’ ‘Descriptive statistics,’ then click ‘Descriptives…’ Click ‘Educational level’ and ‘Beginning Salary,’ and put it into the variable box. Click Options Click
- 34. Descriptives The options allows you to analyze other descriptive statistics besides the mean and Std. Click ‘variance’ and ‘kurtosis’ Finally click ‘Continue’ Click Click
- 35. Descriptives Finally Click OK in the Descriptives box. You will be able to see the result of the analysis.