Using SPSS: A Little Syntax Guide
Using SPSS: A Little Syntax Guide is a technical report from the Canadian Centre for Research Analysis and Methods (CCRAM) focused on the use of SPSS syntax. I developed this document over many years of teaching introductory statistics at the undergraduate and graduate level in the social sciences. I make it freely available for use in your own work and in your classrooms to encourage current and burgeoning scientists to learn more about and get in the habit of interacting with SPSS through syntax rather than only through the point-and-click user interface. It is not about how to analyze data or the theory and practice of statistics. It is about using SPSS syntax to manage data and generate output corresponding to various elementary statistical problems.
A Little Syntax Guide starts out with eleven reasons why learning the syntax system is a worthwhile endeavor that will make your data analysis practice and science better, more efficient, more social, and more transparent, and you more marketable. After discussing data entry, it then steps through examples of SPSS syntax for the kinds of data analysis problems covered in introductory-level statistics classes as typically offered in the social science, health, and business fields.
A Little Syntax Guide starts out with eleven reasons why learning the syntax system is a worthwhile endeavor that will make your data analysis practice and science better, more efficient, more social, and more transparent, and you more marketable. After discussing data entry, it then steps through examples of SPSS syntax for the kinds of data analysis problems covered in introductory-level statistics classes as typically offered in the social science, health, and business fields.