These quick SPSS tutorials are designed to get you the result you need as fast as possible.
They work on the assumption that you have already added data into SPSS, and what you need to know is how to perform a specific calculation and to interpret the result.
If you require a more in-depth understanding, then you should check out our detailed tutorials.
This quick tutorial will show you how to reorder columns in the SPSS Data View. Quick Steps Select the entire column you want to move by click on its name at the top Drag the column to its new location The Problem In a previous tutorial, we created a new variable to hold a … Read more
This quick tutorial will show you how to create a unique identifier for each case – i.e., each person, experimental subject, etc – within a data set in SPSS. The advantage of doing this is it disambiguates cases that might otherwise be confused – for example, if you had two John Smiths in your sample. … Read more
This quick tutorial is designed to show how to do a paired samples t test in SPSS and how to interpret the result. A paired samples t test, also known as a dependent samples t test, will sometimes be performed in the context of a pretest-posttest experimental design. For this tutorial, we’re going to use … Read more
This quick tutorial will show you how to do an independent samples t test in SPSS and how to interpret the result. Quick Steps Click on Analyze -> Compare Means -> Independent-Samples T Test Drag and drop the dependent variable into the Test Variable(s) box, and the grouping variable into the Grouping Variable box Click … Read more
This quick tutorial will show you how to do Fisher’s exact test in SPSS. This test tends to be used when sample sizes are small, and you want to test whether two categorical variables (for example, gender and smoking status) are associated with each other. Quick Steps Click on Analyze -> Descriptive Statistics -> Crosstabs … Read more
This quick tutorial will show you how to calculate the skewness and kurtosis of a distribution in the SPSS statistics package. Quick Steps Click on Analyze -> Descriptive Statistics -> Descriptives Drag and drop the variable for which you wish to calculate skewness and kurtosis into the box on the right Click on Options, and … Read more
This quick tutorial will show you how to calculate percentiles in SPSS using the default HAVERAGE method. Quick Steps Click on Analyze -> Descriptive Statistics -> Frequencies Drag and drop the variable for which you wish to calculate the percentile(s) into the box on the right Click the Statistics button Select the Percentile(s) option, type … Read more
This quick tutorial will show you how to calculate the chi square (test of independence) statistic in SPSS and also how to interpret the result of the calculation. Quick Steps Click on Analyze -> Descriptive Statistics -> Crosstabs Drag and drop (at least) one variable into the Row(s) box, and (at least) one into the … Read more
This tutorial will show you the quickest method to create a histogram in the SPSS statistical package. Quick Steps Click Graphs -> Legacy Dialogs -> Histogram Drag variable you want to plot as a histogram from the left into the Variable text box Select “Display normal curve” (recommended) Click OK Histogram will appear in SPSS … Read more
This quick tutorial will teach you how to calculate the mean and standard deviation of a set of data in SPSS. There are a number of different ways to achieve this, but what follows is probably the easiest. Quick Steps Click Analyze -> Descriptive Statistics -> Descriptives Drag the variable of interest from the left … Read more