SPSS brings affordable, professional statistical analysis and modeling tools right to a student's own PC. Based on the professional version of one of the world's leading desktop statistical software packages, SPSS 11.0 for Windows Student Version includes an easy-to-use interface and comprehensive on-line help that enables students to learn statistics, not software. An arsenal of robust features, including time series, allows for even the most complete analysis. System Requirements: Microsoft Windows 98 or NT 4.0, 586DX or better IBM-compatible PC, 80 MB hard disk space, 64 MB RAM minimum, 32 MB virtual memory, SVGA monitor, and Windows-compatible mouse. To license the SPSS Student Version, you must be a currently enrolled student or an instructor, and using the product for educational purposes only.  Installation on a network or in an academic lab is strictly prohibited by the license agreement

This product accompanies:
Hittleman & Simon,  Interpreting Educational Research, 4/E
Jones & Kottler,  Understanding Research: Becoming a Competent and Critical Consumer

• NEW - Greater statistical content—The SPSS Property Valuation Assessment product is now included to provide a greater value to property assessors, market researchers, financial analysts, and others. Enhanced procedures allow you to save predicted probabilities, predicted response category, probability of the predicted response category, and probability of the actual response category.

• NEW - Greater ease of use—Various features that were available previously via syntax are now available via the GUI including the ability to drop and save variables when saving a file. Expanded documentation includes distributing of the algorithms on the CD, resurrecting the “Help for Old Friends” document, more documentation about data management, distributing the new Developer's Guide on the CD, and a limited set of examples in the Regression Models manual.

• NEW - Improved, more efficient outputting and reporting— Features have been added to the SPSS tables that allow you to control the height and width of individual columns and rows, use corner labels, and more by using standard syntax, without resorting to scripting. A modern graphic engine provides you with richer editing capabilities and chart templates. Percent change in OLAP Cubes is now included enabling you to quickly size up the change in mean or sum between any two related variables. Less memory is needed for large .spo files allowing you to work with .spo files without consuming all of virtual memory. You can now produce better looking output more easily. The Navigator and DraftViewer are “smarter” reducing the need to format output manually.

• NEW - Improved data connectivity.

  • Enables the Text Import Wizard to support CSV format, allows for sampling when doing an ODBC pull, and preserves the effectiveness of star schema dimension tables by converting them directly to value label lists.

• Analysis Architecture and Tools—Each module on the desktop has a related module server available; conversion-free/copy-free data is accessible; SPSS client can be used with all licensed SPSS Servers.

• Complete coverage of statistics—Mean, median, mode, and sum; Frequency counts and percents; Confidence intervals for the mean; Crosstabulations; Maximum, minimum, standard deviation, standard error, variance, and outliers; T-tests and analysis of variance (ANOVA) models; Correlations; Linear regression and curve estimation; Chi-square, binomial, runs, and other nonparametric tests; Time series: ACF, PACF, CCF, transform, smoothing, exponential smoothing, seasonal adjustments; Factor, discriminant, K-means cluster, hierarchical cluster, proximities; Reliability analysis and ASCAL multidimensional scaling; Receiver-Operating Characteristic (ROC) curve analysis.

• Data and output management—Actively manage temp file consolidation; Direct Excel interface; Large file capability; Ability to run multiple SPSS sessions at one time, and switch sessions; Save up to 50 variables and 1500 cases; Data Editor with spreadsheet-style format; Sort and transform data and manage missing values; Select random samples and systematic subsets of cases; Read data from Excel, Lotus 1-2-3, ASCII, dBASE, and more; Organize output in the Viewer; Use the Text Wizard to read in and define ASCII data quickly. It's easy to get to your data (wherever it resides) and then quickly get your data ready for meaningful analysis.

• Charts, graphs, and tables—Interactive graphics let you create 3-D charts that rotate in real time and update instantly; Interact with “dynamic” report cubes for more valuable analysis; Swap rows and columns and drill down into your report cubes to find important relationships and patterns that may be hidden in traditional statistical tables; Change a table into a graph with just a few mouse clicks; Graphs; Histogram, business charts, hi-low-close, box-plot, scatterplot, scatterplot matrix, area/profile, probability plots, quantile plots, range bar, error bar; Quality control charts: Pareto, X-Bar-R, X-Bar-s, p, np, c, u; Create automatically labeled charts from stat procedures or data; Customize your charts to highlight points of interest, such as adding reference lines.

• More thorough answers than spreadsheets—SPSS provides boxplots, Pareto charts, stem and leaf plots, factor analysis, and extensive tests of single and multivariate distributions-features spreadsheets can't match.

• SPSS Base 11.0 Brief Guide—The SPSS Base 11.0 Brief Guide provides a set of tutorials designed to acquaint the beginning user with the various components of the SPSS system. This manual can be used in sequence or as a reference for additional information. It is a supplement to the on-line tutorial that is included FREE in the SPSS 11.0 software. The guide provides introductions to using the help system and data editor, importing your data into SPSS, working with statistics and output, creating charts with SPSS 11.0's interactive graphics, modifying data values, working with syntax and data files, calculating new data values, sorting and selecting data, and brief introductions to topics such as the SPSS 11.0 ANOVA models and regression analysis.

• On-line help—Includes the Statistics Coach, a tutorial with plenty of examples.

  • Helps users choose the appropriate statistical procedure and graph, and the Results Coach(tm) that helps interpret output.

• Greater statistical content—The SPSS Property Valuation Assessment product is now included to provide a greater value to property assessors, market researchers, financial analysts, and others. Enhanced procedures allow you to save predicted probabilities, predicted response category, probability of the predicted response category, and probability of the actual response category.

• Greater ease of use—Various features that were available previously via syntax are now available via the GUI including the ability to drop and save variables when saving a file. Expanded documentation includes distributing of the algorithms on the CD, resurrecting the “Help for Old Friends” document, more documentation about data management, distributing the new Developer's Guide on the CD, and a limited set of examples in the Regression Models manual.

• Improved, more efficient outputting and reporting— Features have been added to the SPSS tables that allow you to control the height and width of individual columns and rows, use corner labels, and more by using standard syntax, without resorting to scripting. A modern graphic engine provides you with richer editing capabilities and chart templates. Percent change in OLAP Cubes is now included enabling you to quickly size up the change in mean or sum between any two related variables. Less memory is needed for large .spo files allowing you to work with .spo files without consuming all of virtual memory. You can now produce better looking output more easily. The Navigator and DraftViewer are “smarter” reducing the need to format output manually.

• Improved data connectivity.

  • Enables the Text Import Wizard to support CSV format, allows for sampling when doing an ODBC pull, and preserves the effectiveness of star schema dimension tables by converting them directly to value label lists.

I. GETTING STARTED WITH SPSS.

II. DESCRIBING DATA.

III. Testing Hypotheses.

IV. EXAMINING RELATIONSHIPS.

APPENDICES.

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