CHAPTER 4: THE IBM SPSS ENVIROMENT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

CHAPTER 4: THE IBM SPSS ENVIROMENT EXAM

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS



IBM SPSS stats comes in four flavors

Base

Standard

Professional

Premium

Has most of the functionality covered in this book is in the base package

-logictic regression

- loglinear anaylis

- Bayesion Stats

Base

where you input your data and carry out stastistical functions

Data editor

This where the results of any analysis appear

Viewer

A pane displaying any restore points you have

recent files

snapshot of you working enviroment at a specific time

Restore point

, for entering data

data view

for defining characteristics of the variables within the data editor

Variable view

all the options save, graphs, open and print graphs

FIle

you can insert a new variable into the data editor using ________________

insert variable

add a new row of data between two existing rows using ______________

insert cases

skip to a particular row

Go to case or go to variable

all about manipulating the data in the data editor

DATA

what options does the data menu have?

Split file

Select cases

Restructure

menu contains items relating to manipulating variables in the data editor

Transform

If you have a variable that uses numbers to code groups of cases then you might

want to switch these codes around by changing the variable itself

Recode into same variables