Summary SPSS cheat sheet

SPSS
 Bar chart: Graphs -> Legacy dialogs -> Bar -> Simple (summary for groups of cases) -> In

‘Category axis’ (opton of cases)

 Boxplot: Graphs -> Legacy dialogs -> Boxplot -> Simple & Summaries for groups of cases -> Into

variable (what you want to make the boxplot of), into category axis (when side-by-side boxplot

of…. (e.g. gender)) OR Boxplot -> Simple & Summaries of separate variables -> Into Boxes

represent (what you want to make the boxplot of, just creatng one)

 Case summary / overview cases: Analyze -> Reports -> Case summaries (don’t limit cases to

100)

 Computing varialle (automatic): Transform -> Compute variable (diference is wriien as abs(..))

 Descriptives: Analyze -> Descriptve statstcs -> Descriptves -> Optons ((nding mean, standard

deviaton, minimum, maximum etc.)

 Five-numler summary: Analyze -> Descriptve statstcs -> Frequencies -> optons (median,

minimum, maximum, 1st/3rd quartle)

 Frequency talle: Analyze -> Descriptve statstcs -> Frequencies (see optons and charts for

measure of central tendency (mean, median, mode) and spread (e.g. histogram))