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SPSS Interface
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Contents
• SPSS interface:
– Data view and Variable view
• How to enter data in SPSS
• How to import external data into SPSS
• How to clean and edit data
• How to get descriptive statistics
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SPSS interface
• Data view
– The place to enter data
– Columns: variables
– Rows: records
• Variable view
– The place to enter variables
– List of all variables
– Characteristics of all variables
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Enter data in SPSS directly
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Example: Hospital-stay data
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Columns:
variables
Rows:
cases
Under Data
View
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Enter Variables
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Enter variables
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Enter cases
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Import data from Excel
• Select File Open Data
• Choose Excel as file type
• Select the file you want to import
• Then click Open
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Open Excel files in SPSS
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Continue
Save
this file
as SPSS
data
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Clean data after import data files
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cases summaries
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Basic Statistical Analysis
• Descriptive statistics:
1. Find wrong entries
2. Have basic knowledge about the
sample and targeted variables in a
study
3. Summarize data.
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Qualitative Variables
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Quantitative Variables
Analyze Descriptive statistics Descriptives
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AGE
Histogram Box-Plot
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Duration of Stay
Histogram Box-Plot
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