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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

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By: Ken Stehlik-Barry, Anthony Babinec

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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.

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Free Chapter

Installing and Configuring SPSS

The SPSS installation utility

Licensing SPSS

Launching and using SPSS

Setting parameters within the SPSS software

Executing a basic SPSS session

Summary

Accessing and Organizing Data

Accessing and organizing data overview

Reading Excel files

Reading delimited text data files

Saving IBM SPSS Statistics files

Reading IBM SPSS Statistics files

Demo - first look at the data - frequencies

Variable properties

Summary

Statistics for Individual Data Elements

Getting the sample data

Descriptive statistics for numeric fields

Discovering coding issues using frequencies

Explore procedure

Summary

Dealing with Missing Data and Outliers

Outliers

Missing data

Summary

Visually Exploring the Data

Graphs available in SPSS procedures

Summary

Sampling, Subsetting, and Weighting

Select cases dialog box

Selecting a random sample of cases

Split File

Weighting

Summary

Creating New Data Elements

Transforming fields in SPSS

The RECODE command

The COMPUTE command

The IF command

The DO IF/ELSE IF command

General points regarding SPSS transformation commands

Summary

Adding and Matching Files

SPSS Statistics commands to merge files

Example of one-to-many merge - Northwind database

One-to-one merge - two data subsets from GSS2016

Example of combining cases using ADD FILES

Summary

Aggregating and Restructuring Data

Using aggregation to add fields to a file

Aggregating up one level

Second level aggregation

Matching the aggregated file back to find specific records

Restructuring rows to columns

Summary

Crosstabulation Patterns for Categorical Data

Percentages in crosstabs

Summary

Comparing Means and ANOVA

SPSS procedures for comparing Means

Post hoc comparisons

Summary

Correlations

Pearson correlations

Listwise versus pairwise missing values

Pivoting table editing to enhance correlation matrices

Visualizing correlations with scatterplots

Rank order correlations

Partial correlations

Summary

Linear Regression

Assumptions of the classical linear regression model

Example - motor trend car data

Multiple regression - Model-building strategies

Summary

Principal Components and Factor Analysis

Choosing between principal components analysis and factor analysis

PCA example - violent crimes

Factor analysis - abilities

Summary

Clustering

Overview of cluster analysis

Overview of SPSS Statistics cluster analysis procedures

Hierarchical cluster analysis example

K-means cluster analysis example

Twostep cluster analysis example

Summary

Discriminant Analysis

Descriptive discriminant analysis

Predictive discriminant analysis

Assumptions underlying discriminant analysis

Example data

Statistical and graphical summary of the data

Discriminant analysis setup - key decisions

Examining the results

Scoring new observations

Summary

Sampling, Subsetting, and Weighting

You are often interested in analyzing a subset of cases and even treating that subset as a dataset in its own right. SPSS Statistics provides facilities to find subgroups of cases based on logical criteria, time or case ranges, random sampling, or values of a specific variable. This activity sometimes goes by the terms drilling down or filtering.

A related idea is weighting. Here, fewer records might stand in for more if you have a case weight variable that represents case replication.

In this chapter, we will consider SPSS Statistics commands that enable us to perform case selection, sampling, and weighting, in particular, the following topics: