LibGuides: Statistical Packages: SPSS

Introduction

SPSS is a statistical package popular in the social sciences, business, health and medicine, and education research. The programme is capable of descriptive statistics, bivariate statistics, prediction for both numerical outcomes and identifying groups.

SPSS can be installed on staff and student machines by visiting AppsAnywhere and on personal devices through the Software Download Service.

SPSS

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Exporting Novi Survey Results to SPSS
This quick video shows you how to export survey responses from Novi into SPSS.
SPSS Tutorials
Ruben Geert van den Berg has collected information from the most common questionds about SPSS and developed them into these helpful online tutorials.
Andy Field: SPSS Tutorials
Author and academic Andy Field has provided recording of his webcast tutorials on SPSS on YouTube.

Top Popular SPSS Tests from SPSS Help

SPSS Tutorials from LSE
Online tutorials from the London School of Economics.
SPSS Tools
Raynald Levesque has created this collection of over 675 sample syntax, macros and scripts to be a source of better solutions of data management and data analysis problems in SPSS.
Resources to help you learn and use SPSS
More resources from the University of California, Los Angeles on using SPSS effectively and developing your knowledge of analytical methods.

How to do a meta-analysis
This article describes the process of conducting meta-analysis: selecting articles, developing inclusion criteria, calculating effect sizes, conducting the actual analysis (including information on how to do the analysis on popular computer packages such as IBM SPSS and R) and estimating the effects of publication bias. Guidance is also given on how to write up a meta-analysis.

Library Resources

Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics by Andy Field
Call Number: Sighthill Main stock 519.50285555 SPSS FIE
Introduction to SPSS Statistics in Psychology by Dennis Howitt; Duncan Cramer
Call Number: Sighthill Main stock 150.727 HOW
Quantitative analysis and SPSS: A guide for business and finance by Abdulkader Aljandali
Call Number: (ebook)
A step-by-step guide to SPSS for sport and exercise studies by Nikos Ntoumanis