SPSS Help From a Statistics Professor

IBM SPSS Statistics is the most widely used statistical package in psychology, nursing, education and the social sciences, and it is also where many students first feel lost. The menus are friendly, but the output is not: dozens of tables, footnotes and statistics, with little indication of which numbers actually matter.

I have taught and tutored SPSS since 2014. I will show you how to run the right procedure, read the output with confidence and report it correctly in APA style.

What I Can Help You Do in SPSS

Data Setup and Preparation

• Defining variables correctly in Variable View: measurement level, value labels and missing values
• Importing data from Excel, CSV, Qualtrics and SurveyMonkey
• Recoding, reverse-scoring and computing scale totals
• Handling missing data and running Missing Value Analysis and Multiple Imputation
• Splitting files, selecting cases and merging datasets

Core Analyses

• Descriptive statistics, frequencies and crosstabs
• Independent-samples, paired-samples and one-sample t-tests
• One-way, factorial, repeated-measures and mixed ANOVA, plus ANCOVA and MANOVA
• Correlation: Pearson, Spearman and partial correlation
• Linear, hierarchical and logistic regression
• Chi-square tests of independence and goodness of fit
• Non-parametric tests: Mann-Whitney U, Wilcoxon, Kruskal-Wallis, Friedman

Advanced Procedures

• Reliability analysis (Cronbach’s alpha) and exploratory factor analysis
• Mediation and moderation with the PROCESS macro by Andrew F. Hayes
• Generalized linear and mixed models
• SEM and CFA in SPSS AMOS

Reproducible Work With SPSS Syntax

Clicking through menus is fine for learning, but committees and journals increasingly expect reproducibility. I teach you to paste and save syntax, so every analysis can be re-run, audited and adjusted in seconds.

Reading SPSS Output Without the Guesswork

Common questions we resolve in a single session:

• Which row do I report in the t-test table, “Equal variances assumed” or “not assumed”?
• What does a significant Levene’s test mean for my ANOVA?
• Why is my Mauchly’s test significant, and should I use Greenhouse-Geisser?
• Where do I find R², adjusted R² and the standardized coefficients in regression output?
• How do I interpret Exp(B) in logistic regression?
• What is a “good” KMO value, and how many factors should I retain?

Who I Help

• Undergraduates completing SPSS lab assignments and projects
• Master’s and doctoral candidates running dissertation analyses (see Dissertation Statistics Support)
• Researchers and professionals analyzing survey and program data
• Teams and cohorts through SPSS training workshops

How SPSS Support Works

1. Share what you need: your task, your dataset (or a description of it) and your deadline.
2. We meet live on Zoom or Google Meet, sharing your screen so you learn in your own copy of SPSS.
3. You leave with saved syntax, annotated output and a recording to review.

Get Unstuck in SPSS Today

Whether it is a single confusing table or an entire dissertation analysis, book a free 15-minute consultation. Tell me your SPSS version, the analysis you are working on and your deadline, and you will receive a clear plan and quote within 24 hours.

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