Introduction to SPSS & SPSS/Regression

Welcome to IT’s seminar on stat. packages

Sam Gordji, ccsam@olemiss.edu

Weir 107

List of Statistical Packages

• SPSS

• SAS

• Mathematica

• MathWorks

• IMSL

List of Statistical Packages

The cost for SAS is $75 per copy per

year. 50 Copies are available to the faculty and an additional 50 copies are available for student use. IT has most of the SAS modules but not all. To obtain a copy of SAS please send an email to ccsam@olemiss.edu or

assist@mcsr.olemiss.edu

List of Statistical Packages

Mathematica

Mathematica (free copy for faculty, staff, and students). To obtain a copy of Mathematica please visit:

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.php?pagename=mathematica.inc

List of Statistical Packages

Matlab

Matlab is available on willow and sweetgum

Other packages such as Fortran, IMSL, etc. will be mentioned briefly

List of Statistical Packages

IMSL

IMSL is a comprehensive package containing Math, stat., and special functions

IMSL is available only on sweetgum

IMSL is a set of subroutines called by a Fortran program

General Information

Email contact– Email your questions to ccsam@olemiss.edu

To download this and other materials visit:

http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/appssubpage.

php?pagename=mathcamp.inc Please fill out the performance report and leave

your email address so we may contact you for follow up questions

General Information

This seminar covers SPSS and Regression with SPSS

SPSS, SAS, and Mathematica are available in Weir Student Lab, Weir 107, and several other labs around campus

We’ll look at a few short examples of SPSS & SPSS Regression

General Information

SAS performs statistical analysis SPSS performs statistical analysis and is

similar to SAS Mathematica’s main function is to perform

mathematical operations including statistics

MathWorks is similar to Mathematica and is available on willow and sweetgum

General Information

IT staff will assist users to access these packages. We also assist users to find the proper procedure to analyze their data. If you need assistance please send an email to Sam Gordji at ccsam@olemiss.edu,

assist@mcsr.olemiss.edu , or

mathadm@olemiss.edu

Available SPSS Modules At UM

• SPSS Base (Linear Regression)

• Professional Stats (Non-Linear Reg.)

• Advanced Stats

Downloading SPSS

• 110 copies of SPSS are available in various Lab around campus

• A faculty or staff may download a copy of SPSS to their PC, please visit:

• http://www.olemiss.edu/helpdesk/resources.html#software

• Internet connection is needed to run SPSS

• Commuter License is available

Today We’ll Cover

A simple SPSS Example (reg.sps)

Creating a simple SPSS program using a simple dataset (reg2.sps)

Using Data from SPSS’ Data file: C:\Program Files\SPSS15\SPSS\coffee.sav