POK STATS BLOG

UPDATE: and the old adage holds true, if, it's too good to be true, it isn't true. Many of the videos actually require a $49 fee. So I'll revisit making videos for this class. I thought about doing this very thing, but why reinvent the wheel?  This person's videos are excellent and it's free to sign up- you will  have to sign up in order to view all the videos:  http://www.spssvideotutor.com/

This is one of the most helpful sites for SPSS questions: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_SPSS_and_PASW  The text below is the introduction to this wikibook. Using SPSS and PASW SPSS or "Statistical Package for the Social Sciences"  is a software program widely used in the social sciences for conducting statistical analysis of data. The company that produced the software was  SPSS, Inc. , but it was bought in 2008 by IBM. During the transition, the software package was renamed to PASW, but has since been renamed back to SPSS.  GNU PSPP  is a  free  alternative to SPSS [1] . It appears to be very similar. This book is a rudimentary introduction to the use of SPSS for basic statistical analysis. The book is written with a focus on social scientific analysis in mind (particularly  Sociology ). Part I of the book covers basic operations within SPSS, from installing it to manipulating data. Part II illustrates how to do a variety of b...