SPSS

SPSS

Objectives :

? What is SPSS ?

? Historical background

? Used in

? Feature of SPSS

? Getting into program
? Advantages & Disadvantages


What is SPSS ?

? SPSS - Statistical Package for the Social Sciences

? SPSS is a comprehensive and flexible statistical analysis and data management
solution.

? SPSS is a computer program used for survey authoring and deployment, data
mining, text analytics, statistical analysis, and collaboration and deployment

? SPSS can take data from almost any type of file and use them to generate
tabulated reports, charts, and plots of distributions and trends, descriptive
statistics, and conduct complex statistical analyses

? SPSS is among the most widely used programs for statistical analysis in social
science.

Historical background
? Its is developed by Norman H. Nie and C. Hadlai Hull of IBM
Corporation in the year 1968. It is compatible with Windows, Linux,
UNIX & Mac operating systems. SPSS is among the most widely used
programs for statistical analysis in social science.


Used in
? Telecommunications

? Banking

? Finance

? Insurance

? Healthcare

? Manufacturing

? Retail

? Consumer packaged goods

? Higher education , etc….