For those new to SPSS, it is strongly recommended that you aim to consult the following resources in the first instance:
1. IBM SPSS Statistics 22 Brief Guide
2. The StatsforMedics page ARRANGING DATA IN SPREADSHEETS FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
This page is intended to cover any issues which you have regarding the preparation of your data for statistical analysis. Please pay particular attention to the Data Preparation Tutorial (see Q. 1 of the above MedStats page), which can save you a great deal of time and effort in the longer term.
3. The movie SPSS Help & Tutorials – How to get help with SPSS
This tutorial explains and demostrates how to navigate through the SPSS help facilities to gain help on specific topics of interest.
4. The course SPSS Statistics Essential Training
This course consists of a series of SPSS training videos across a range of statistical techniques which you may wish to dip into.
The University of Edinburgh (UoE) has a subscription with the provider Lynda.com. Therefore, if you are a University of Edinburgh student, the recommendation in the content at the above link to login via your University account is the simplest. You can then enter the search term ‘SPSS Statistics Essential Training’ into the resulting Lynda.com page and gain direct access to the videos.
Thanks to Year 5 UoE undergraduate medical student, Joe James, for drawing this course to my attention on 2 Feb 2017.
5. Capturing and running SPSS syntax
If you have a lot of data to collect and want to do some initial training with menu commands in SPSS with a subset of these data, you may wish to capture the syntax from the initial work for running with your complete dataset when it is ready. This is a great way of avoiding learning syntax from scratch within an unreasonable timescale.
To learn about how to achieve the above, including how to run the syntax, in a few easy steps, please refer to How to Effortlessly Create SPSS Syntax and Automatically Add it to your Output.
Getting to Know SPSS by Margaret MacDougall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
