STA 5105L SPSS Lab
Summer
2008 Syllabus
IMPORTANT! For homework, I want you to include the syntax
(commands) in the output.
Here is how you do it.
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Commands.
Turn in homework in class or during the
week, leave it in my mailbox outside of the
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pick it up in the brown envelope on the
floor outside my office door, DM409D.
Last Day to turn in homework is Thursday,
June 19, 5 PM.
Date
Lessons
Topics___________________
May 9
1-9, 12-4, 19 Introduction to SPSS. Icons, Opening files,
File extension.
Working with Data. Summarizing Data and Printing.
Exercises Lesson
19, Ex. 1,2 - In addition, make a sum-like
score that has a value no matter how many
missing values there are (mathatt2). Print out all data using ANALYZE
/ REPORTS
/ Case Summaries.
Lesson 19, Ex. 3-5 - Put variable and value
labels on the new variables and print out
frequencies of the new variables. MUST HAVE VALUES ON GROUP
FREQUENCIES!
NOTE: NO CLASS MAY 16
May 23
16A-18A, 20, 21 Graphing. Descriptive statistics for
qualitative and quantitative
data. Z scores.
Exercises Lesson
20, Ex. 1-8. You must write
Participants' sections.
Lesson 21, Ex. 1-5. Print out the data
and percentiles.
Lesson 21, Ex. 6-8. For 7,8,
use EXPLORE / Display BOTH to get means and boxplot.
In addition, try to do an independent samples t test on the total attitude
score by political party.
May 30
10, 22-24
Exporting and
Importing data. T-tests for 1 sample, paired and
independent samples.
Exercises Lesson 22, Ex.
1-4 with a test value of 2.
Lesson 22, Ex. 5-6 with a test value of 11.
Lesson 23, Ex. 1-5. Put variable labels on
new variables. MUST write RESULTS section.
Lesson 24, Ex. 6-10. ALSO answer 7-10 for an
independent samples t-test for the pretest
achievement score variable.
June
6 41, 31, 33
Cross-tabulations. Correlations, Linear Regression and
relevant graphs.
Exercises Lesson 41, Ex. 4-6.
Include counts and row percents in the table. Do follow-up tests
comparing
all pairs of types of presentations using Holm's sequential
Bonferroni's procedure to control Type I
errors. Create a table like the one on page 375.
Lesson 31, Ex. 5-8. Ex. 5 and Ex. 8 says to
write a results section!!
Lesson 33, Ex. 5-7.
June 13
25 (26) One -way ANOVA with post hoc tests for significant
tests. Reading
in text data with Data Wizard. (If time, Two-way ANOVA , using
syntax
for
post hoc tests of significant interaction effects).
Exercises Lesson 25, Ex. 1-3. Save
the residuals and test them for normality and write a RESULTS section.
Lesson 25, Ex. 4-6. Save the residuals and
test them for normality and write a RESULTS section.
(Lesson 26, Ex. 1-8. Perform the appropriate
post hoc tests for each data set. Save the residuals
and test them for normality for each data set. Write a Result section for
both data sets.)
If you have NOT completed correctly 4 of
5 assignments by June 19, 5 PM, BUT have completed
correctly MORE THAN than 2 of 4
assignments, you will receive an INCOMPLETE.
If you have completed correctly 2 or
fewer assignments, you will receive an F.