Welcome to the Math 150 Gateway page to the SPSS User Guide.

 

Use the links here to find information about using SPSS in your Math 150 course.

 

This page is organized alphabetically within each general topic area.

 

If you would like to see the topics organized by data type instead, click here. If you would like to see the topics organized by textbook chapter, click here. (This assumes the use of Intro Stats by DeVeaux, Velleman, and Bock, 4th ed.)

 

Working with data:

• Select cases
• Transform → Compute Variable
• Understanding the settings in Variable View

 

Working with Normal models:

• Using CDF.NORMAL and IDF.NORMAL

 

Descriptive Statistics:

• Bar graph
• Boxplot
• Clustered bar graph
• Contingency table
• Correlation table
• Descriptive statistics
• Frequency table
• Histogram
• Linear regression
• Normal probability plot
• Pie chart
• QQ plot (redirects to Normal probability plot)
• Residual plot
• Scatterplot
• Side-by-side boxplot
• Stacked bar graph
• Stacked histogram 

 

Inferential Statistics:

• Chi-squared contingency test 
• Chi-squared goodness-of-fit test
• One-proportion z-interval
• One-proportion z-test
• One-sample t-interval for the mean
• One-sample t-test for the mean
• Paired t-interval
• Paired t-test
• Two-proportion z-interval
• Two-proportion z-test
• Two-sample t-interval for the difference between means
• Two-sample t-test for the difference between means