STA 5105L SPSS Lab
Summer 2009 Syllabus

IMPORTANT!  For homework, I want you to include the syntax (commands) in the output. Here is how you do it.  Echo Back Commands

Turn in homework in class or during the week, leave it in my MAILBOX (Johnson) outside of DM404, the Statistics Office. I will grade it and email you to pick it up in the brown envelope on the floor outside my office door, DM409D. Last Day to turn in homework is Friday, June 19, 5 PM.

Date                 Lessons / Exercises                  Topics
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May 8            Lessons 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!  

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May 15        NO CLASS
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May 22          Lessons 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, boxplot.
                                           In addition, try to do an independent samples t test on the total attitude
                                           score by political party. 

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May 29          Lessons 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.


 

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Jun 5            Lessons 41, 31, 33   Cross-tabulations and Chi square tests.
                                   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 error. 
                                         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.

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Jun 12          Lesson 25   One -way ANOVA with post hoc tests for significant tests.
                                         Reading in text data with Data Wizard. 
                                         Second half of class, finish homework.

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.

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  • If you have completed correctly 2 or fewer assignments, you will receive an F.