1. Introduction to SPSS Welcome to IT’s seminar on statistical packages Sam Gordji, ccsam@olemiss.educcsam@olemiss.edu Weir 107

2. List of Statistical Packages SPSS SAS Mathematica MathWorks (Matlab) VNI (IMSL, PV-WAVE)

3. Statistical Package: SAS/PC (cont.) 50 copies are available for faculty use For each copy purchased, a faculty member can get a free copy (to be installed on a student PC) The cost is $100 per copy per year To obtain a copy of SAS please email –ccsam@olemiss.edu, orccsam@olemiss.edu –assist@mcsr.olemiss.eduassist@mcsr.olemiss.edu

4. List of Statistical Packages Mathematica  A free copy for faculty, staff, and students. To obtain a copy of Mathematica please visit: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php?pagena me=mathematica.inc

5. List of Statistical Packages Matlab  Matlab is available on willow and sweetgum  Other packages such as Fortran, IMSL, etc. will be mentioned briefly

6. List of Statistical Packages IMSL  IMSL is a comprehensive package containing Math, stat., and special functions  IMSL is available only on sweetgum  IMSL is a set of subroutines called by a Fortran program

7. General Information  Email contact –Email your questions to ccsam@olemiss.educcsam@olemiss.edu  To download this and other materials visit: http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php?pagename=augcamp08.inc http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php?pagename=augcamp08.inc Please fill out the performance report and leave your email address so we may contact you for follow up questions

8. General Information  This seminar covers Introduction to SPSS  SPSS, SAS, and Mathematica are available in Weir Student Lab, Weir 107, and several other labs around campus  We’ll look at a few short and simple examples of SPSS

9. General Information  SAS performs statistical analysis  SPSS performs statistical analysis and is similar to SAS  Mathematica’s main function is to perform mathematical operations including statistics  MathWorks is similar to Mathematica and is available on willow and sweetgum

10. General Information  IT staff will assist users to access these packages. We also assist users to find the proper procedure to analyze their data. If you need assistance please send an email to Sam Gordji at assist@mcsr.olemiss.edu, or ccsam@olemiss.edu assist@mcsr.olemiss.edu ccsam@olemiss.edu

11. Available SPSS Modules At UM SPSS Base (Linear Regression) Professional Stats (Non-Linear Reg.) Advanced Stats

12. Downloading SPSS 110 copies of SPSS are available in various Lab around campus A faculty or staff may download a copy of SPSS to their PC, please visit: http://www.olemiss.edu/helpdesk/resources.html #softwarehttp://www.olemiss.edu/helpdesk/resources.html #software Internet connection is needed to run SPSS Commuter License is available

13. Useful Links Main link for SPSS http://www.spss.com Link for statistics http://www.spss.com/statistics/

14. Today We’ll Cover  A simple SPSS example (freq1_0829.sps)  Using the above data to run descriptive statistics (Point & Click)  Using dataset (survey08-12_var_Aug13.xls) to run correlation  Running one way AOV (oneway_0919.sps)  Using Data from SPSS’ Data file: C:\Program Files\SPSS15\SPSS\coffee.sav