FLC uses the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) program for data analysis. Students can typically access SPSS from any computer on-campus.
The following documents contain step-by-step directions for conducting data analyses using SPSS. Each documentation uses a specific dataset, which are also available below. You must be working on a computer with SPSS installed if you want to open the datasets.
Entering data
[instructions]
Frequency tables, histograms, and bar charts
[instructions] [quantitative dataset] [qualitative dataset]
Frequency tables using already grouped data
[instructions] [dataset]
Descriptive statistics
[instructions] [dataset]
One-sample t test
[instructions] [dataset]
Independent samples t test
[instructions] [dataset]
Dependent samples t test
[instructions] [dataset]
One-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
[instructions] [dataset]
Two-way ANOVA
[instructions] [dataset]
Repeated-measures ANOVA
[instructions] [dataset]
Correlation, regression, and scatterplots
[instructions] [dataset]
One- and two-variable chi-squares
[instructions] [one-variable chi-squre dataset] [two-variable chi-square dataset]
Non-parametric tests
[instructions] [Mann-Whitney dataset] [Wilcoxon dataset] [Kruskal-Wallis dataset]
Documents were created by Dr. Beverly Chew.