Overview -- Opening existing data files -- Importing data from non-SPSS file formats -- Opening previously created output files -- Saving files -- Creating new SPSS data files -- Creating & editing SPSS output files -- Preferences: getting started -- Measurement of variables in SPSS -- Transforming variables -- Recoding variables -- Computing variables -- Using the count function -- Computing an index using mean -- Multiple response -- Organization and presentation of information -- Measures of central tendency and variability -- Frequency distributions -- Charts and graphs -- Boxplot -- Scatterplot -- Histogram -- Bar graph -- Pie chart -- Alternate methods of creating charts and graphs -- Cross-tabulation & measures of association for nominal & ordinal variables -- Bivariate analysis -- Adding another variable or dimension to the analysis -- Measures of association for nominal & ordinal variables -- Correlate and regression analysis -- Bivariate regression -- Correlation -- Multiple regression -- Selecting and sampling cases -- Targeted selection -- Random selection -- Selecting cases for inclusion in a new dataset -- Testing hypotheses using means and cross-tabulation -- Comparing means -- Comparing means: paired-samples T test -- Comparing means: independent-samples T test -- Chi-square -- Analysis of variance -- Way Anova -- Anova with regression -- Editing output -- Editing basic tables -- Copying to Microsoft Word -- Exporting output -- Editing charts & graphs -- Advanced applications -- Merging data from multiple files -- Opening previously created syntax files -- Creating new SPSS syntax files.