User Guide

Chapter

Overview

SPSS for Windows provides a powerful statistical analysis and data management

system in a g

raphical environment, using descriptive menus and simple dialog boxes

to do most of the work for you. Most tasks can be accomplished simply by pointing

and clicking the mouse.

In additio

n to the simple point-and-click interface for statistical analysis, SPSS for

Windows provides:

Data Editor. A versatile spreadsheet-like system for defining, entering, editing, and

displayin

gdata.

Viewer. The Viewer makes it easy to browse your results, selectively show and hide

output, change the display order results, and move presentation-quality tables and

charts be

tween SPSS and other applications.

Multidimensional pivot tables. Your results come alive with multidimensional pivot

tables. Explore your tables by rearranging rows, columns, and layers. Uncover

importan

t findings that can get lost in standard reports. Compare groups easily by

splitting your table so that only one group is displayed at a time.

High-resolution graphics. High-resolution, full-color pie charts, bar charts, histograms,

scatter

plots, 3-D graphics, and more are included as standard features in SPSS.

Database access. Retrieve information from databases by using the Database Wizard

instead of complicated SQL queries.

Data tra

nsformations.

Transformation features help get your data ready for analysis.

You can easily subset data, combine categories, add, aggregate, merge, split, and