PSPP for Beginners

Purpose

This web site is a tutorial to help new statisticians get started with using PSPP for statistical analyses. PSPP is a free alternative to the commercial SPSS software.

Contents

Getting started:

1. What are SPSS and PSPP?
2. Obtaining PSPP
3. Starting PSPP
4. Views in PSPP
5. Variables in PSPP
6. The Variable View
7. Configuring Variables
8. Value Labels
9. Other Settings
10. Data Type
11. Switch to the Data View
12. Saving Data
13. The Output Viewer
14. Entering Data
15. Importing Data
16. Data Navigation
17. Sorting Data
18. Sorting by columns
19. Choosing Variables for Analysis
20. Computing a Variable
21. Recoding New Classification Variables
22. Recoding the Same Variable

Descriptive Statistics:

23. Descriptive Statistics
24. The Frequencies Command
25. Frequencies Caution
26. The Descriptives Command
27. Crosstabs Data
28. Crosstabs Command
29. Means Command
30. The Split File feature
31. Histogram graphs
32. Bar Graphs
33. Pie Charts

Analyzing Relationships:

34. Analyzing relationships
35. Scatterplots
36. Correlation coefficient
37. Linear Regression

Inferential Statistics:

38. Inferential statistics
39. The t-test family
40. One-sample t-test
41. Independent-samples t-test
42. Paired t-test
43. Analysis of Variance
44. Chi Square Goodness of Fit
45. Chi Square test of Independence

Closing Remarks:

46. Closing and credits

Miscellaneous Instructional Tools

Practice calculating basic statistics by hand. These exercises require javascript.

• Summation with one variable
• Summation with two variables
• Mean
• Variance and standard devation
• Correlation
• Simple probability
• Binomial distribution
• Z test decision

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