SPSS (PHC 6050)
Here we provide links to tutorials and lectures on using IBM SPSS statistical software.
General Information
- On the site home page under SPSS Resources you will find many useful links. In particular, you should learn to use the UCLA Institute for Digital Research and Education site if you plan to use SPSS in the future. If you have suggested sites, please let us know!
PHC 6050: Statistical Methods for the Health Sciences 1
!!** Tutorials **!!: Organized by Major Topic
You will be directed to the needed tutorials for each assignment from inside E-Learning. The files needed for or produced from these tutorials are provided below the tutorials as well as where appropriate in each tutorial.
Video Tutorials
Topic 0 – Introductions
- A – (4:00) Introduction To SPSS
- B – (2:43) Dataset Information
- C – (2:12) Tips for Watching
Topic 1 – Importing Raw Data and Saving in SPSS Format
- A – (2:23) Importing Data from an EXCEL file (XLS or XLSX)
- B – (3:44) Importing Data from a Comma Separated (CSV) file
- C – (1:43) Opening an SPSS Dataset (SAV)
- D – (0:58) Importing Data from a SAS Dataset (SAS7BDAT)
Topic 2 – Data Manipulation and Management
- A – (6:00) Basic Data Settings
- B – (3:25) Labeling Variables in an SPSS Dataset
- C – (3:19) Translating Coded Categorical Variables
- D – (4:30) Computing New Variables
- E – (8:46) Categorize a Quantitative Variable
Topic 3 Working with Output
- A – (5:40) Opening and Editing SPV Files
- B – (6:56) Editing Graphs in SPSS Output
- C – (3:31) Editing Tables and Page Breaks
- D – (5:23) Exporting and Copying Output
Topic 4 – One Categorical Variable
- A – (7:00) Frequency Distributions
- B – (3:57) Creating Bar Charts and Pie Charts
Topic 5 – One Quantitative Variable
- A – (8:00) Numeric Measures using EXPLORE
- B – (2:29) Creating Histograms and Boxplots
- C – (2:31) Creating QQ-Plots and PP-Plots
- D – (6:41) Numeric Measures: Other Methods
Topic 6 – Case CC – Two Categorical Variables
- A – (7:57) Two-Way (Contingency) Tables – EDA
- B – (9:19) Two-Way (Contingency) Tables – Inference
Topic 7 – Case CQ (or QC) – One Quantitative and One Categorical (Independent Samples)
- A – (3:29) Numeric Summaries by Groups
- B – (1:59) Side-By-Side Boxplots
- C – (5:30) Two Sample T-Test
- D – (4:22) One Way ANOVA
- E – (3:57) Non Parametric Tests
Topic 8 – Case CQ – One Quantitative and One Categorical (Dependent Samples)
- A – (3:19) Data Preparation
- B – (2:00) EDA of Differences
- C – (3:11) Paired T-Test
- D – (3:32) Non Parametric (Paired)
Topic 9 – Case QQ – Two Quantitative Variables
- A – (2:38) Basic Scatterplots
- B – (2:54) Grouped Scatterplots
- C – (3:35) Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient
- D – (2:53) Simple Linear Regression – EDA
- E – (7:07) Simple Linear Regression (Inference)