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You can then open any of the books comprising the tutorial by clicking on the + to get to the various subtopics.
Once in a subtopic is open, you can just keep clicking on the to move through it page right and left arrows
by page. I suggest going through the entire Overview booklet. Once you are working with a data set, and have
an idea of what you want to do with the data, you can also use the under the menu to Statistics Coach Help
help get the information you wish. It will lead you through the SPSS process.
Using the SPSS Data Editor. When you begin SPSS, you open up to the Data Editor. For our purposes right
now, you can learn how to do this by going to Help>Tutorial>Using the Data Editor, and then working
your way through the subtopics. The data we will use is given in the table below, with the numbers indicating
total protein (μg/ml).
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76.33 77.63 149.49 54.38 55.47 51.70
78.15 85.40 41.98 69.91 128.40 88.17
58.50 84.70 44.40 57.73 88.78 86.24
54.07 95.06 114.79 53.07 72.30 59.36
76.33 77.63 149.49 54.38 55.47 51.70
59.20 67.10 109.30 82.60 62.80 61.90
74.78 77.40 57.90 91.47 71.50 61.70
106.00 61.10 63.96 54.41 83.82 79.55
153.56 70.17 55.05 100.36 51.16 72.10
62.32 73.53 47.23 35.90 72.20 66.60
59.76 95.33 73.50 62.20 67.20 44.73
57.68
For our data, double click on the var at the top of the rst column or click on the Variable View tab at the bot-
tom of the page, type in ``protein" in the Name column, and hit Enter. Under the assumption that you are going
to enter numerical data, the rest of the row is lled in.
Changes in the type and display of the variable can be made by clicking in the appropriate cells and using any
buttons given. Then hit the tab and type in the data values, following each by Data View Enter.
Save the le as usual where you wish under the name . You just need type . The sufx is protein.sav protein
attached automatically.
