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Data Analysis with IBM SPSS Statistics

By : Ken Stehlik-Barry, Anthony Babinec
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Data Analysis with IBM SPSS Statistics

By: Ken Stehlik-Barry, Anthony Babinec

Overview of this book

SPSS Statistics is a software package used for logical batched and non-batched statistical analysis. Analytical tools such as SPSS can readily provide even a novice user with an overwhelming amount of information and a broad range of options for analyzing patterns in the data. The journey starts with installing and configuring SPSS Statistics for first use and exploring the data to understand its potential (as well as its limitations). Use the right statistical analysis technique such as regression, classification and more, and analyze your data in the best possible manner. Work with graphs and charts to visualize your findings. With this information in hand, the discovery of patterns within the data can be undertaken. Finally, the high level objective of developing predictive models that can be applied to other situations will be addressed. By the end of this book, you will have a firm understanding of the various statistical analysis techniques offered by SPSS Statistics, and be able to master its use for data analysis with ease.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
4
Dealing with Missing Data and Outliers
10
Crosstabulation Patterns for Categorical Data

Statistical and graphical summary of the data

There are many exploratory analyses that you can undertake at this point. Here, we show a simple table means as well as a scatterplot matrix that reveals the group structure.

Here are the group means on the attributes:

These statistics are presented for descriptive purposes. You are looking for overt differences in the means across the three types. If an input's means vary across type, then this suggests that the variable might be a useful discriminator. On the other hand, do not make too much of apparent differences as these are single-variable statistics. Discriminant analysis brings all of the inputs into the model at the same time, and therefore you get a sense of a variable's impact in the presence of other variables.

You might also try various charts. Here is a scatterplot matrix showing five of the attributes:

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