Biostat and Epi

• SPSS - stands for Statistical Package for Social Sciences.
• IBM company created SPSS, which is used for surveys and research.
• IBM SPSS Statistics - software for managing data and calculating a wide variety of statistics.
• The SPSS software can accomplish data analysis through menus and dialog boxes that can give you visual options with each step of your analysis.
• The process to start SPSS software:

  1.) to run SPSS, log in and click start > programs > IBM SPSS Statistics.

  2.) To start a session, a data file should be opened.

  3.) A dialog box will appear, asking you to open a file.

  4.) Pick a recently opened file or pick open another file or click new dataset from the list on the left.
• The 3 main windows of SPSS software: Data editor, output viewer, and syntax editor.
• These windows and files allows you to: see your data, statistical output, and any programming commands you have written.
• True or false: each window corresponds to a separate type of SPSS file.
• The differences of the three main windows: file type and color.
• SPSS stands for Statistical Package for Social Sciences, a software created by IBM for surveys and researches.
• IBM SPSS Statistics is a software for managing data and calculating a wide variety of statistics.
• Variable view in numerical data is represented as 'sabi ni miss'.
• SPSS for Beginners: Introduction to SPSS (prescribed YouTube tutorial)
• To run SPSS, log in and click start – programs – IBM SPSS Statistics.
• To start a session, a data file should be opened.
• A dialog box will appear, asking you to open a file.
• Pick a recently opened file or pick open another file or click new dataset from the list on the left.
• The three main windows in SPSS are: Data Editor, Output Viewer, and Syntax Editor.
• The Data Editor in SPSS displays the data values, allowing you to see your research data and apply it with data analysis.
• The Output Viewer in SPSS displays the statistical results, including tables of statistical output and any graphs created, programming language for the commands issued, and error messages.
• The Syntax Editor in SPSS allows you to see any programming commands you have written.
• Each window in SPSS corresponds to a separate type of SPSS file.
• The Data Editor in SPSS has a file type of (.sav files) and displays the data values.
• The Output Viewer in SPSS has a file type of (.spv files) and displays the statistical results, including tables of statistical output and any graphs created, programming language for the commands issued, and error messages.
• The Data Editor in SPSS has a menu bar used to access statistical analysis.
• The Output Viewer in SPSS has a menu bar used to access statistical analysis.
• The Syntax Editor in SPSS has a menu bar used to access statistical analysis.
• When you open an SPSS data file, what you see is a working copy of your data.
• The active set in SPSS is marked with a red plus sign on the title bar.
• To open a Data Editor file in SPSS, click file → open → data.
• Many data sets can be opened simultaneously in SPSS.
• To save a Data Editor file in SPSS, click file → save or save as → with a file type of .sav.
• To close a Data Editor file in SPSS, when you close your last Data Editor file you are shutting down SPSS and you will be prompted to save all unsaved files.
• Descriptive Statistic in SPSS contains frequencies tabs.
• To delete objects in the output viewer, select them in either pane or use the delete key.
• The output viewer has two main sections: outline pane (left) and tables pane (right).
• Each data cell holds a data value.
• When SPSS creates output (tables, syntax, error, messages, etc.), each object is noted in the outline pane.
• The output viewer collects statistical tables and graphs and allows editing before saving or printing.
• To edit objects in the output viewer, double-click on the object in the tables pane (e.g. title, table, or a graph).