Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 15:14:28 -0500
Reply-To: Daniel Robertson <djr47@cornell.edu>
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From: Daniel Robertson <djr47@cornell.edu>
Subject: Re: Sample Data Files - Where can I find them?
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If you're looking for introductory material, SPSS Help includes a
Tutorial and some other materials that may be useful.
Another section of the UCLA site contains some simple self-study lessons
and notes, including some movies. See
http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/SPSS/sk/default.htm
Raynauld's SPSS Tools (http://www.spsstools.net/) is a great resource,
albeit somewhat more advanced, and there are certainly many more. Good luck!
Donna Alden-Bugden wrote:
> Thanks...I will take a look when I get home. I downloaded the software after
> paying for it so it doesn't really come with a manual....just the help menu.
> I will take a look for .sav files.
>
> Thanks so much. Glad I'm on this list because i'm starting my doctorate and
> my learning curve is steep with respect to the software. The
> software appears so daunting but I suppose once I get going it will be ok.
> At least it doesn't look like the old SPSS sample program I had in the
> 1980's...it was DOS!!!
>
> Donna
>
>
> On 11/28/07, Daniel Robertson <djr47@cornell.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi Donna,
>>
>> SPSS normally installs quite a few sample data files in the SPSS program
>> directory (something like c:\Program Files\SPSS\) -- this is often the
>> directory that SPSS starts at when you select File -> Open -> Data....
>> SPSS data files have an .sav extension (files with an .sps extension are
>> not SPSS data files but SPSS syntax files).
>>
>> If you get bored with the sample files, sites like UCLA's Statistical
>> Computing center often post the sample files they use in training, e.g.:
>> http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/spss/dae/
>>
>> Hope this helps!
>>
>> Dan R.
>>
>>
>> Donna Alden-Bugden wrote:
>>
>>> I am VERY new to SPSS and I wanted to practice with some data files.
>>>
>> Does
>>
>>> anyone know where to get some data files. I found some .sps files on our
>>> Stats Canada website, but I don't seem to know what to do with them.
>>>
>> They
>>
>>> don't import as regular ascii files...they have a lot of other
>>>
>> information
>>
>>> in them, like coding.
>>> Thanks and sorry for my ignorance....I really need to buy the SPSS for
>>> Dummy's book...
>>>
>>> Donna
>>>
>>>
>>> **********************************************************
>>> Donna Alden-Bugden, RN(EP), MN
>>> Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
>>> Winnipeg, Manitoba
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>>> Donna@Alden-Bugden.ca
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>> --
>> Daniel Robertson
>> Senior Research and Planning Associate
>> Institutional Research and Planning
>> Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853-2801
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>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> **********************************************************
> Donna Alden-Bugden, RN(EP), MN, DNP-Student
> Primary Care Nurse Practitioner
> Doctor of Nursing Practice Student - Cleveland, OH
> Winnipeg, Manitoba
> http://www.NPCanada.ca
> Donna@Alden-Bugden.ca
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