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 according 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. If you are using a different textbook, consider contributing to the cause by organizing a set of links to your textbook and linking to it from this page.)

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

Inferential Statistics:

• Chi-squared 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-propotion z-interval
• Two-proportion z-test
• Two-sample t-interval for the difference between means
• Two-sample t-test for the difference between means