SPSS is a comprehensive and flexible statistical analysis and data management solution. SPSS can take data from almost any type of file and use them to generate tabulated reports, charts, and plots of distributions and trends, descriptive statistics, and conduct complex statistical analyses. SPSS is available from several platforms; Windows, Macintosh, and the UNIX systems. You will find SPSS customers in virtually every industry, including telecommunications, banking, finance, insurance, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, consumer packaged goods, higher education, government, and market research.

1. Delhi University Computer Centre
SPSS Course Contents:
1. Merits of SPSS
2. Data Handling:
a Creating SPSS data set
b Reading the data set from different formats
c Defining the variable attributes
d Different levels of measure: scale, ordinal, nominal
e Creating new variables
3. Univariate analysis:
a Basic descriptive statistics. Measures of central tendency: mean,
median, mode. Measures of dispersion: range, standard deviation,
variance.
b Frequencies and Distribution
c Other basic Univariate procedures: Explore, Crosstab
4. Transforming the data:
a Computing new variables;
b Redefining or reorganization of existing data.
c Filtering the data
d Weighing Cases
e Sorting
f Replacing the missing values
g Using subsets of variables
5. Comparing similar variables. Comparing means and distribution.
Analysis of Variance.
6. Graphs and charts: bar chart, pie chart, histogram, scatter plot. Which
of them should be used in different situations?
7. Hypothesis analysis with SPSS.
8. Testing dependence/independence, Pearsons chi-square, Levels of
significance.