User Guide

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Chapter 1
Online Help. Detailed tutorials provide a comprehensive overview; context-sensitive
Help topics in dialog boxes guide you through specific tasks; pop-up definitions in
pivot table
results explain statistical terms; the Statistics Coach helps you find the
procedures that you need; and Case Studies provide hands-on examples of how to use
statistical procedures and interpret the results.
Command lan
guage.
Although most tasks can be accomplished with simple
point-and-click gestures, SPSS also provides a powerful command language that
allows you to save and automate many common tasks. The command language also
provides s
ome functionality not found in the menus and dialog boxes.
Complete command syntax documentation is automatically installed when you
install SPSS. To access the syntax documentation:
E From the menus choose
Help
Command Sy
ntax Reference
What’s New in SPSS 13.0?
There are many new features in SPSS 13.0.
Data Management
 The Date and Time Wizard makes it easy to perform many calculations with
dates and
times, including calculating the difference between dates and adding
or subtracting a duration from a date. For more information, see “Date and
Time Wizard ” in Chapter 7 on p. 150.
 You can append aggregated results to the working data file. For more information,
see “Agg
regateData”inChapter8onp.184.
 You can c
reate consistent autorecoding schemes for multiple variables and data
files. For more information, see “Automatic Recode” in Chapter 7 on p. 147.
 Stringvaluescanbeupto32,767byteslong. Previously, the limit was 255 bytes.
 You can create multiple panes in Data View of the Data Editor. For more
information, see “Data Editor Display Options” in Chapter 5 on p. 95.