It has also added more and more features, notably including the ability to produce a wide range of graphs.ĭespite its many advantages, one thing that SPSS is not is free. It has become increasingly so for undergraduate instruction as, over time, it has become much more user-friendly, so that even students with no background in statistical analysis can master it as part of a single introductory research methods or statistics course. The authors of this tutorial have used SPSS in their teaching and research, and continue to consider it extremely useful. Eventually it became known simply by its initials (just as many people refer to “IBM” without knowing, or caring, that these initials originally referred to “International Business Machines.”) The name “SPSS” originally stood for “Statistical Package for the Social Sciences.” So successful was it, that it was widely adopted in business and other fields outside social science.
SPSS (officially IBM SPSS Statistics) has, through many iterations and over many years, served as a widely used standard for analyzing quantitative data. This tutorial, written primarily for beginning students, describes the GUI version. There are two versions: the “syntax” version and the less comprehensive but more user-friendly GUI (Graphic User Interface) version. PSPP is a statistical analysis program made available at no charge to users by the Free Software Foundation.
Text file - download and save in MS Word format.ĭata File - download and save in SPSS system file format.
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