Program SPSS with Python® and Command Syntax

The fun and easy way® to generate solid decision-making results with SPSS

Stymied by SPSS? This friendly, plain-English guide gets you up and running with the latest version of the software so that you can start performing calculations right away. It then covers all key analysis topics step by step — from cross tabulation and descriptive ratios to linear regression, hierarchical analysis, and more. You''ll export data flawlessly and with flair!

• Install and run the software

• Get data into and out of SPSS

• Create striking charts and graphs

• Execute analyses — from correlations to linear models

• Display data in a variety of graphs

* SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a data management and analysis software that allows users to generate solid, decision-making results by performing statistical analysis * This book provides just the information needed: installing the software, entering data, setting up calculations, and analyzing data * Covers computing cross tabulation, frequencies, descriptive ratios, means, bivariate and partial correlations, linear regression, and much more * Explains how to output information into striking charts and graphs * For ambitious users, also covers how to program SPSS to take their statistical analysis to the next level