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Statistical analysis using SPSS

You can do some very sophisticated procedures in SPSS. It is most likely that you will want to generate descriptive statistics, such as:

(Note that the Statistics button gives more choices)

(Note that the Options button gives more choices)

You may wish to undertake Inferential statistics, such as:

SPSS Viewer

Note that the results of analysis are presented in the SPSS Viewer . If you want to save this output you must File > Save as and enter a "filename".spo e.g. efficiencystats.spo (you can then just File > Save the output as necessary).

You must save both the data editor (i.e. variable information and data entered) and output (SPSS viewer) separately.

Tables/Charts/Graphs

The tables of results, charts and graphs can be edited and copied into (for example) Word documents.

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