The current version of SPSS on Public Workstations is version 21. There is also a Mac version.
The notes below give an outline of how to use SPSS. You may also find the videos at the bottom of this page helpful.
- Introduction
- SPSS Basics
- Defining Data in SPSS
- Data Checking and Summarising
- Creating New Variables and Modifying Data
- Charts
- Statistical Analysis
- Which Statistical Test?
The data sets referred to in the notes are in Other Resources section below
Installing SPSS for Windows
Please read these installation notes
Download the software from the software distribution site www.software.soton.ac.uk
- Read and agree the terms
- Select Applications
- Choose SPSS
- Proceed to the download page
- Select the version of SPSS you need (32 or 64 bits Windows or Mac) - they are towards to bottom of the list.
Statistics Lectures that refer to techniques and use of SPSS
You may find the videos of lectures on the Statistical Notes page helpful. These explain techniques and with output from SPSS.
Other Resources
- health1.sav
- health2.sav
- health3.sav
- heath4.sav -data set
- soton11.sav - sample data set with 150 cases