SPSS info   Math 151 , Fall 2008  Hit reload to get most current version

SPSS is a powerful computer package that does statistical analyses of data.  It has been developed over many years and is like a huge house that was built in stages, in many different architectural styles.  So there may be several ways to do almost the same thing, but it may come out slightly different in each way.  KEEP NOTES when you figure out how to do something you might want to do again.

Where? as of Day 9, afternoon (email me , the class, with info: I'll update this list)  Mac 101, Mac 304.(but Class Material folder is not on Reed machine?)   Mac 110:  Two machines on the center tables, facing the entry for sure.  Rest were "promised."   Not on any Macintoshes!
Other locations?  Let me know! 

SPSS for your computer.

Files for Homework:  (Feel free to copy the Class Material/Math 151-BPS4e folder to your own thumb drive/ computer.)

Updated Wed. Day 6 (Sept. 10)
In Macmillan 101/110 computers, they should be in the Student folder--on the desktop--which contains the Class Material folder, Math 151-BPS4e. The Student folder is on a drive called New Volume. If you open the Start menu (circle, lower left of desktop), choose Computer, it'll show you this drive.  The Letter identifying the drive/device  is F: in Mac 101/110, but might be D: in Mac 304.  Note that this Student folder is NOT the  C:>Users>Student folder!  In that one, all data will disappear when the machine reboots.  In the one in New Volume, it stays.

Knowing the name and/or the letter of the drive will allow you to find it from within SPSS. 
Computer>New Volume F:..>Student>Class Material>Math151-BPS4e...

The folder   PC-SPSS has the textbook problems.  PCBPSbigdata has some text files for bigger datasets.  The files must be opened from within SPSS.  They are not in standard SPSSv.16 data type, so you have to change Files of Type to All files to see them in the Open File menu.

The CD in your book also contains PC-SPSS and PCBPSbigdata, but it's not so obvious.
    Insert the CD, wait till it opens.  Ignore it.
From within SPSS, File>Open> Data.  Pull down the arrow on the Look in box.   Find and click on the drive with the BPS4e CD in it.  Open the PCDatasets folder.  PC-SPSS and PCBPSbigdata are folders in there, the same ones as in the Class Material folder.
(If you want to find these files outside SPSS, say to copy them to your laptop, do this:  Right click on the Windows Start button (bottom left of your screen).  Choose Explore (second from top, usually) from the menu you get.  In the left pane of the resulting directory window,  find and click on the drive with the BPS4e CD in it.  Open the PCDatasets folder.  PC-SPSS and PCBPSbigdata are folders in there, the same ones as in the Class Material folder.

Ugh!  Every time we change versions or computers we find  new problems! (This is the first term of SPSS on Vista.)  If you have trouble, please email me with as much info as possible:  sievers@wells.edu

--SPSS froze for several people when they were trying to print/print preview. I thought it froze for me but it was just very slow; gave me a gray screen, on which the print preview eventually came up. Wait, wait.
If it's really frozen, try to reboot= restart( Start menu, arrow to the right of the padlock picture (lower right), Restart.)
If you can't do that, pull the plug. In Mac 101 this is the fat power cord going in at the top of the back of the computer. Count to ten and plug it in again. Turn it on.
You will have lost any unsaved work.

--Save your work frequently! (see above.) The Output file saves separately from the Data file (save that too if you modified it in any way.) The Output files tend to be quite large. Delete stuff that is wrong or useless, to save space and confusion.

SPSS Handouts: 
Math 151 SPSS v. 16 Introduction:
Page 1 , Data Editor (p.2),
Tables & Graphs:  Numerical summaries (p.3)Graphs (p.4) 
Comparing Subgroups (p.5) , Pre-piled data and Two-way tables (p.6)Importing Data (p.7) , Timeplot & Index (p.8)

Links will be activated as the semester proceeds: 
Optional:  Transforming old variables into new variables, and using SPSS "tables"

Handout on 
Scatterplots and  Governors' Salaries HW sheet  data file: govsal_vs_pay.sav

Sampling using SPSS

One-sample t, and matched pairs (Days 39-40, approx.)

Two-sample t.  (Days 40-41, approx)

Data Files: 

Links here for files from SPSS in Class BCS, and ones used not anywhere else: 
First big handout: Pp.2-5 Studat-in-SPSS.sav.
    Same file as it should be after doing p. 2:Studat-Completer.sav.  P.7  Studat-as-text.dat 

 educ-v-mortality.sav  ,   Studat-in-SPSS.sav,    govsal_vs_pay.sav

Other Handouts:  (not all handouts are web-able.  Look in the white folder outside my door for paper.) 
   See Weblinks page for links.


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