Data Management with SPSS
Course Description
The focus of this course is on the use of a wide range of transformation techniques,
ways to automate your work, manipulate your data files and results, and send
your output to other Windows applications. You will gain an understanding of
the various options for operating SPSS and how to use syntax to perform data
transformations efficiently.
Who Should Attend
- Anyone who has worked with SPSS and wants to explore additional data
management and manipulation features of SPSS and generally increase efficiency
with SPSS
- This course is a natural follow-on to the “Introduction to SPSS” course
or a stand-alone for experienced users
Prerequisites
- Completion of “Introduction to SPSS” or experience with SPSS
for Windows (V9 or later) including familiarity with reading and defining
data, basic uses of recode and compute functions and creating charts
Course Content
- Automating SPSS using syntax and Production Mode
- Further data transformations: Automatic Recode, Count, conditional transformations
- Using Numeric Functions
- Using System Functions
- Computing Date, Time and String variables
- Helpful data management features: Identify duplicate cases, Custom Attributes,
Variables Sets, Aggregating Data
- Merging Files – Adding cases
- Merging Files – Adding variables
- Editing Charts and Pivot Tables
- Deploying SPSS results
- Controlling the SPSS environment
- Appendix: Optimal Binning using SPSS Data Preparation (add-on module)
SPSS Products Used
- SPSS Base & SPSS Data Preparation module (appendix)
Duration
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