WOFFORD MATH 140 - Assignment:Getting Help
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SPSS Assignment 4: Getting Help In previous tutorials you learned a few basic operations in SPSS. Clearly, SPSS is a very powerful system with many more commands than we can cover in a few basic tutorials. In this tutorial, you will learn ways to learn more about SPSS. You have probably noticed that when you start SPSS you are given the option to run a built-in tutorial. By clicking on the Run the tutorial radio button and then OK, the built-in SPSS tutorial starts. (Alternately, if you are already running SPSS and have progressed beyond this opening screen, the tutorial can be started from the Help menu.) The opening screen that looks like this: You can expand each of the topics by clicking on the + as done for the introduction. You can then step through a tutorial on each topic.Here is the first page of the first tutorial: You can navigate through the tutorial using the arrows in the lower right corner on the page. Step through the introduction reading each page to get an idea of how this works. Stop when you get beyond the introduction. Topics In addition to the tutorials, there is an extensive set on online documentation that is readily available to you. (This works corrrectly in the computer lab.) With this system, you can look up information on whatever command you are interested in. To use this, go to the Help menu and select Topics. !This opens a window providing, in the pane on the leftmost, four options––Contents, Index, Search, and Favorites. !Select Contents if it isn’t already selected. Read through the section on Getting Help (up to and including the page entitled Copying Help Text from a Pop-Up Window). You can move to the next page by clicking on the arrow labeled Next in the upper right-hand corner of the rightmost pane, or by selecting the next item from the list in the leftmost pane.!The Index tab can be used to search the documentation index. Frankly, this is not likely to be very useful until you know a lot more about SPSS. But once you do, you may find it helpful. For beginners the Search tab is likely to be more helpful since you can search by topic. For example, let’s assume you want to know how to create a pie chart. Begin by clicking on the Search tab in the leftmost pane. Enter the text “pie chart” in the search field and press return. Select Pie Charts from the Select topics pane. You should see something like this:!!By expanding the underlined topics in the rightmost pane, you should have the basic information you need to create a pie chart. Enter the following data and use it to create a pie chart. !In this example, the data was formatted as follows: !Follow the directions you uncovered in the previous step to open Chart Builder.!!Then use Chart!Builder as described in the help system to produce a pie chart similar to the one shown below and on the next page. ! !!Once the graph has been added to your output window, double click on it to open it. Add a text box in the lower right-hand corner with your name. Feel free to make additional changes. Print the graph. This is all that you will turn


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