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    SPSS Software: Statistical Package For Social Sciences

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    SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a widely used statistical analysis software package. It was first released in 1968 and allows users to perform statistical analysis, data management, and data documentation. Reasons for using SPSS include its ease of use for common statistical techniques, ability to use point-and-click or syntax interfaces, and compatibility with many social science data sets. SPSS can perform descriptive, bivariate, predictive, and other statistical analyses through its menus or command syntax language. However, it provides less control over output than some other packages and has some limitations for complex data manipulation.

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    SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a widely used statistical analysis software package. It was first released in 1968 and allows users to perform statistical analysis, data management, and data documentation. Reasons for using SPSS include its ease of use for common statistical techniques, ability to use point-and-click or syntax interfaces, and compatibility with many social science data sets. SPSS can perform descriptive, bivariate, predictive, and other statistical analyses through its menus or command syntax language. However, it provides less control over output than some other packages and has some limitations for complex data manipulation.

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    SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a widely used statistical analysis software package. It was first released in 1968 and allows users to perform statistical analysis, data management, and data documentation. Reasons for using SPSS include its ease of use for common statistical techniques, ability to use point-and-click or syntax interfaces, and compatibility with many social science data sets. SPSS can perform descriptive, bivariate, predictive, and other statistical analyses through its menus or command syntax language. However, it provides less control over output than some other packages and has some limitations for complex data manipulation.

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    SPSS Software

    Statistical Package for Social


    Sciences
    SPSS
     SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)
    was released in its first version in 1968.
     It is a computer program used for statistical analysis.
     Between 2009 and 2010 the premier software for
    SPSS was called PASW (Predictive Analytics
    SoftWare) Statistics.
     SPSS is the most widely used statistical package.
     In addition to statistical analysis, data management
    (case selection, file reshaping, creating derived
    data) and data documentation (a metadata
    dictionary is stored in the data file) are features of
    the base software.
    Reasons for using SPSS
     SPSS is a good first statistical package for people
    wanting to perform quantitative research in social
    science because it is easy to use and because it
    can be a good starting point to learn more advanced
    statistical packages.
     Force of habit: SPSS has been around since the
    late 1960s.
     Of the major packages, it seems to be the easiest to
    use for the most widely used statistical techniques;
    Reasons…..
     One can use it with either a Windows point-
    and-click approach or through syntax (i.e.,
    writing out of SPSS commands.) Each has its
    own advantages, and the user can switch
    between the approaches;
     Many of the widely used social science data
    sets come with an easy method to translate
    them into SPSS; this significantly reduces the
    preliminary work needed to explore new data
    Statistics functions in SPSS
     Descriptive statistics: Cross tabulation, Frequencies,
    Descriptives, Explore, Descriptive Ratio Statistics
     Bivariate statistics: Means, t-test, ANOVA, Correlation (bivariate,
    partial, distances), Nonparametric tests
     Prediction for numerical outcomes: Linear regression
     Prediction for identifying groups: Factor analysis, cluster analysis
    (two-step, K-means, hierarchical), Discriminant
     The many features of SPSS are accessible via pull-down menus
    or can be programmed with a proprietary 4GL command syntax
    language. Command syntax programming has the benefits of
    reproducibility; simplifying repetitive tasks; and handling complex
    data manipulations and analyses.
    Limitations of SPSS
     SPSS users have less control over statistical output than, for
    example, Stata or Gauss users.
     For novice users, this hardly causes a problem. But, once a
    researcher wants greater control over the equations or the
    output, she or he will need to either choose another package or
    learn techniques for working around SPSS's limitations;
     SPSS has problems with certain types of data manipulations,
    and it has some built in quirks that seem to reflect its early
    creation. For new users working off of standard data sets, this is
    rarely a problem. But, once a researcher begins wanting to
    significantly alter data sets, he or she will have to either learn a
    new package or develop greater skills at manipulating SPSS.

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