SPSS: Beyond the Basics

Prerequisites£

This session follows on from SPSS: Basic Parts 1 and 2 and continues to introduce useful techniques for data analysis with SPSS. Working with sensitive data types will be covered and a basic introduction to SPSS command language.

The course assumes prior attendance of SPSS Basic Parts 1 and 2, or equivalent knowledge and experience.

• Introduction to data cleaning
• Working with sensitive data dates and times
• Recoding and transforming data
• Introduction to SPSS Syntax language
• Recovering data and analysis files
• Data restructuring and management

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals.

SPSS v. 16 on PWF Windows

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• No attempt is made to teach statistical techniques, though simple examples are used to show the principles of SPSS use.
• Practicals will be run on PCs using SPSS for Windows.

One half day session

• SPSS: Beyond the Basics

• Scientific Computing
• Statistical and Mathematical Software