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SPSS Lesson 1
SPSS Lesson 1
SPSS Lesson 1
BY
LUCY WANGARI
What is SPSS?
Statistical Package for social sciences, and it's used by various kinds of researchers for complex statistical data analysis.
It was developed by International Business Machines (IBM) for data management and various statistical analysis.
Installing SPSS
SPSS is not a free tool and therefore you will be required to pay for the package.
1. Click here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Cb1qj_AfwNFCCRf0PDRYuP084KMM8C38?usp=sharing to
download this version of SPSS
2. Open set up to begin the installation process
3. Click next and accept the terms and conditions in all steps.
4. Select finish and SPSS is ready.
> click next and grant permission to complete the process.
Statistics
Statistics is the study of the collection, analysis, interpretation, presentation, and organization of data.
Types of Statistics
Descriptive Statistics - involves organizing, displaying, and describing data.
Inferential Statistics - involves drawing conclusions about a population based on information contained in a sample
taken from that population.
Types of Data
1. Qualitative data- it is descriptive data. Example- She can run fast, He is thin.
2. Quantitative data- it is numerical information. Example- An Octopus is an Eight legged creature. Types –
a. Discrete data- has a particular fixed value. It can be counted
b. Continuous data- is not fixed but has a range of data. It can be measured.
Set the variable Type to either String, numeric or various type of numeric variable. In the label
column, you can write the whole variable e.g. What is your?, How dare you? In the values column,
you can define the levels of the variable e.g. for Degree, 1-LT High school, 2-High school, 3-Junior
college etc.