University of Guelph Library
The University of Guelph currently maintains a Site license for SPSS 17. For information regarding the site license, purchasing and access options along with installation notes please visit CCS Software: SPSS.
DRC staff offer workshops on a number of topics using the SPSS software every the semester. With each workshop you will receive a set of notes. To register for a workshop please visit the REG website.
Workshop Notes
- Introduction to SPSS — Getting Your Data In (PDF – 1,020kb)
- Data Analysis in SPSS 1 — Getting Comfortable with Your Data (PDF – 448kb)
- Data Analysis in SPSS 2 — Means Comparisons (PDF – 550kb)
- Data Analysis in SPSS 3 — Exploring Data Groupings (PDF – 621kb)
Self-help Guides Using SPSS
Using the Data Editor
- Opening a Text Data File (PDF – 814kb)
- Opening an Excel File (PDF – 162kb)
- Calculating Event Duration Using Dates (PDF – 162kb)
- Creating a Dummy Variable (PDF - 383kb)
- Creating and Editing Charts (PDF - 1100kb)
- Recoding Variables (PDF - 362kb)
- Aggregating Cases (PDF - 485 kb)
- Merging Files (PDF - 342 kb)
Statistical Procedures
- A Guide to Principal Component Analysis (PDF - 305kb)
SPSS Documentation
- Please visit SPSS Support pages at http://www.spss.com/TechSupport/ for documentation, examples and tutorial videos. You will need to register with the SPSS first before you can login.
Data Access
Contact
519–824–4120 ext. 56417
Visit
The DRC is located behind the Research Help desk in the McLaughlin Library.