This course provides an overview of some of the mechanics of SPSS Statistics for data management and basic statistical analyses in preparation for PBHL 511 - Biostatistics. Students will explore the features of the data view, variable view, output and syntax editor windows of SPSS. They will learn the difference between 'numeric' or 'string' variables, how to label variables, specify value labels, import SPSS data sets (e.g. import Excel data to SPSS or SPSS to Excel), input data to create SPSS data sets, create new variables, sort variables and data, split datasets, select cases, merge data, transform data. They will also learn how to check for variable characteristics, such as descriptive statistics (central tendency, variation, skewness), shape of distribution (skewness), and missing values.
- Teacher: Kijai, Jimmy