SPSS Tips and Links

Although none of these are explicitly for the current SPSS version (PASW Statistics 17.0), they are all worthwhile tutorials:

U. Texas:   Getting Started     Descriptive & Inferential Stats     Displaying Data     Manipulation & Advanced

SPSS Basics pdf (U. Mass)   Using Syntax

SPSS Tutorial (Harvard)

YouTube Tutorial

Jennifer Blessing's SPSS help: SPSS Tips    Repeated Measures


Other SPSS resources:

SPSS company statistics page  (21 day free trial)     PASW Statistics 17.0 Brief Guide (pdf)

Buy SPSS 17.0 Integrated Student Version ($89)    Buy SPSS 17.0 Integrated Student Version ($99)    Rent SPSS 17.0 Grad Pack ($46-$140)    Buy PASW 17.0 Grad Pack ($188)     Buy PASW 17.0 Grad Pack ($200)

Documentation (by version; including manuals, algorithms, syntax, etc.)

SPSS White Papers

SPSS FAQ (USC)

SPSS FAQ (U. Texas)

SPSS resources (Raynald Levesque)

R code for SPSS skew and kurtosis


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