User manual SPSS BRIEF GUIDE 13.0

[. . . ] SPSS 13. 0 Brief Guide ® For more information about SPSS® software products, please visit our Web site at http://www. spss. com or contact SPSS Inc. 233 South Wacker Drive, 11th Floor Chicago, IL 60606-6412 Tel: (312) 651-3000 Fax: (312) 651-3668 SPSS is a registered trademark and the other product names are the trademarks of SPSS Inc. No material describing such software may be produced or distributed without the written permission of the owners of the trademark and license rights in the software and the copyrights in the published materials. The SOFTWARE and documentation are provided with RESTRICTED RIGHTS. [. . . ] Because the table is in a text format, the data can be edited after you paste it into your document. E Click the Marital status table in the Viewer. E From the menus choose: Edit Copy E Open your word processing application. E From the word processor's menus choose: Edit Paste Special E Select Formatted Text (RTF) in the Paste Special dialog box. Figure 6-22 Paste Special dialog box E Click OK to paste your results into the current document. 113 Working with Output Figure 6-23 Pivot table displayed in Word The table is now displayed in your document. You can apply custom formatting, edit the data, and resize the table to fit your needs. Pasting Results as Metafiles Pasting your results as metafiles maintains the formatting of your output. Your pasted output becomes an image in the target document. E Click the Marital status table in the Viewer. E From the menus choose: Edit Copy E Open your word processing application. E From the word processor's menus choose: Edit Paste Special 114 Chapter 6 E Select Picture in the Paste Special dialog box. (In some applications, the choice may be "metafile" instead of "Picture. ") Figure 6-24 Paste Special dialog box E Click OK to paste your results into the current document. Figure 6-25 Metafile displayed in Word 115 Working with Output The metafile is now embedded in your document. This image is a snapshot of the Marital status table. Only the visible portions of the table are copied. Information in hidden categories or layers is not included in the metafile. Pasting Results as Text Pivot tables can be copied to other applications as plain text. Formatting styles are not retained in this method, but you gain the ability to edit the table data after you paste it into the target application. E Click the Marital status table in the Viewer. E From the menus choose: Edit Copy E Open your word processing application. E From the word processor's menus choose: Edit Paste Special E Select Unformatted Text in the Paste Special dialog box. Figure 6-26 Paste Special dialog box 116 Chapter 6 E Click OK to paste your results into the current document. Figure 6-27 Pivot table displayed in Word Each column of the table is separated by tabs. You can change the column widths by adjusting the tab stops in your word processing application. Exporting Results to Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel Files SPSS allows you to export results to a single Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, or Excel file. You can export selected items or all items in the Viewer. If exporting to Word or PowerPoint, you can export charts. This topic uses the files msouttut. spo and demo. sav. [. . . ] For example, if you select Stepwise in the above example, only variables that meet the criteria in the Linear Regression Options dialog box are entered in the equation. Nonparametric Tests The Nonparametric Tests submenu on the Analyze menu provides nonparametric tests for one sample or for two or more paired or independent samples. Nonparametric tests do not require assumptions about the shape of the distributions from which the data originate. Chi-Square The Chi-Square Test procedure is used to test hypotheses about the relative proportion of cases falling into several mutually exclusive groups. You can test the hypothesis that people who participated in the survey occur in the same proportions of gender as the general population (50% males, 50% females). In this example, you will need to recode the string variable Gender (gender) into a numeric variable before you can run the procedure. 232 Chapter 11 E From the menus choose: Transform Automatic Recode. . . This opens the Automatic Recode dialog box. Figure 11-11 Automatic Recode dialog box E Select the variable Gender (gender) and move it to the Variable -> New Name list. [. . . ]