SPSS Portal

SPSS – an acronym for “Statistical Package for the Social Sciences” – is a statistical analysis program that was first developed in 1968. The South Campus (Main) Library and the North Campus Library each have one computer with SPSS 19.0 installed for use by UT Southwestern faculty, staff, and students.

SPSS can be utilized in two different ways. The first way is to use the menus in the graphical user interface to choose which statistical analyses to run (the point and click method). The second way is to write syntax or code in the syntax editor to customize the analyses. The most current version of SPSS is 19.0, but information and tutorials about previous editions are still likely to be helpful because the interface of recent editions has not significantly changed.

In addition, the UT Southwestern Division of Biostatistics offers short courses and credit courses on SPSS for UT Southwestern affiliates. Core Facilities’ Research Software Core Operations offers information on campus site licenses and how to get some technical support.

Electronic Books

The Library has access to many electronic books related to statistics in its eBooks on EBSCOhost collection. eBooks on EBSCOhost is searchable by full text, title, author, keyword, and subject. The following is a selected list of electronic books specifically about working with SPSS.

Categorical Data Analysis with SAS and SPSS Applications, 2003 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]

Fundamental Statistics for Social Research, 1998 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]

Levine's Guide to SPSS for Analysis of Variance, 2003 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]

Quantitative Data Analysis With SPSS Release 10 for Windows, 2001 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]

SPSS 12 Made Simple, 2004 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]

SPSS for Intermediate Statistics, 2005 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]

SPSS for Psychologists, 2000 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]

SPSS for Windows, 2000 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]

SPSS Survival Manual (Version 10), 2001 (eBooks on EBSCOhost) [Electronic Book]

SPSS Web Books: Regression with SPSS [Electronic Book]

Web Resources

Raynald's SPSS Tools

Resources to Help You Learn and Use SPSS

SPSS Tutorials

Strategically Using General Purpose Statistics Packages: A Look at Stata, SAS, and SPSS

UT Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation SAS and SPSS Tutorials

Print Resources

SPSS 15.0 Brief Guide
HA 32 S546 Top Floor
Is it available? Library Catalog

SPSS Base 15.0 User’s Guide
HA 32 S544 Top Floor
Is it available? Library Catalog

Statistical Analysis Quick Reference Guidebook: with SPSS Examples
Alan C. Elliott
QA 278 E46S Top Floor
Is it available? Library Catalog