by Dr. Gilbert Klajman

    Known Installation Problem (for Student Version):

    Message from computer: "Installing V10.0 requires SVGA and then aborts."  See the following explanation and solutions:
    http://www.spss.com/tech/answer/result.cfm?tech_tan_id=100007583

    If Student SPSS Version 10.0 cannot run on your own machine, it will likely run Student Version 8.0.  I can lend you a copy of Version 8.0.

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    Getting started, and learning how to use features:
                -->help->Tutorial

         Deciding what to do, and learning how to do it:
         ->help->statistics coach

         Interpreting output:
         ->double-click the output-->help->results coach

        Variable labels, not variable names, showing up in lists?  Would you like your output to have a different appearance?

         Changing the SPSS Default Settings

         Splitting A File to Repeat Analysis for several Groups

         HELPFUL SITES

http://www.uncg.edu/irc/spss/win/spsswin10.html   Excellent outline of SPSS basics, from Instructional and Research Computing, University     of  North Carolina Greensboro.  Oriented to menu system.  (Some of the features described may not be not included in the Student Version.)

http://pages.infinit.net/rlevesqu/  Raynald Levesque's site -- Excellent.  But will not be helpful to users of the student version (it shows how to use syntax language and contains very useful macro code and program routines.  For serious users.  But you may find his "newbie corner" very useful.

    Some "cookbooks":

t-test single mean SPSS cookbook

t-test Diff between 2 Independent Means SPSS cookbook

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