SPSS Base 11.0 for Windows User's Guide

SPSS 11.0 is a comprehensive system for analyzing data. SPSS can take data from almost any type of file and use them to generate tabulated reports, charts, and plots of distributions and trends, descriptive statistics, and complex statistical analyses. SPSS makes statistical analysis accessible for the casual user and convenient for the experienced user. The Data Editor offers a simple and efficient spreadsheet-like facility for entering data and browsing the working data file. High-resolution, presentation-quality charts and plots are integral parts of the Base system. Much of the output from the Base system and Tables option takes the form of flexible pivot tables that you can modify quickly and copy directly into other applications. The Viewer makes it easy to organize and manage your tables and charts using a familiar tree structure. When you have questions about an item in a dialog box, a statistic in your output, or the steps needed to .accomplish a task, help is only a click or two away. With the Draft Viewer, you can create simple text output instead of interactive pivot tables. See the overview (Chapter 1) for a list of new features and an introduction to the Base system. This manual, the SPSS Base 11.0 User's Guide,documents the graphical user interface of SPSS for Windows. Complete information about using interactive graphics can be found in SPSS Interactive Graphics 10.0,which is compatible with release 11.0 of SPSS. Examples using the statistical procedures found in SPSS Base 11.0 are provided in the Help system, installed with the software. Algorithms used in the statistical procedures are available on the product CD-ROM. Beneath the menus and dialog boxes, SPSS uses a command language that can be used to create and run production jobs. Dialog boxes can "paste" commands into a syntax window, where they can be modified and saved; a few features of the system can be accessed only via command syntax. Complete command syntax is documented in the SPSS 11.0 Syntax Reference Guide,which is included on the product CD-ROM and is available for purchase separately in print. The Help system contains brief syntax diagrams in addition to full help on the graphical user interface. SPSS Options The SPSS family of products includes add-on enhancements to the SPSS Base system, which are available on several computer platforms. Contact your local SPSS office or sales representative about availability of the following options: SPSS Regression Models provides techniques for analyzing data that do not fit traditional linear statistical models. It includes procedures for probit analysis, logistic regression, weight estimation, two-stage least-squares regression, anti general nonlinear regression. SPSS Advanced Models focuses on techniques often used in sophisticated experimental and biomedical research. It includes procedures for general linear models (GLM), linear mixed models, variance components analysis, loglinear analysis, ordinal regression, actuarial life tables, Kaplan-Meier survival analysis, and basic and extended Cox regression. SPSS Tables creates a variety of presentation-quality tabular reports, including complex stub-and-banner tables and displays of multiple-response data. SPSS Trends performs comprehensive forecasting and time series analyses with multiple curve-fitting models, smoothing models, and methods for estimating autoregressive functions. SPSS Categories performs optimal scaling procedures, including correspondence analysis. SPSS Conjoint TM performs conjoint analysis. SPSS Exact Tests calculates exact pvalues for statistical tests when smaSPSS Inc. is the author of 'SPSS Base 11.0 for Windows User's Guide', published 2001 under ISBN 9780130755070 and ISBN 0130755079.