Statistical Package for the Social

Science (SPSS) and Sample Power 3

Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

UF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Spring 2023
Authored by: Jose Lorenzo Silva-Lugo, Ph.D.
 STATISTICAL PACKAGE FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCE
(SPSS) AND SAMPLE POWER 3
Introduction to the Practice of Statistics

Instructor
Dr. Jose Lorenzo Silva-Lugo, HUB 285 Phone: (352) 273-1579. Email: joselugo@ufl.edu.

Class Meeting
Online. Dates: January 9th (8:00 am) to March 10th, 2023 (5:00 pm).

Goal and Objectives

The goal of this course is to introduce the SPSS and Sample Power applications to faculty, staff,
and students with no knowledge or basic skill in SPSS and Sample Power. This course will teach
participants the fundamental procedures that will allow them to continue by their own. After
completing this course, participants will be able to:
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• Describe the SPSS interface. Enter and save data. Import data from Excel
• Do data preparation and exploratory data analysis
• Create charts, histograms, and box plots
• Transform variables
• Perform statistical analyses such as t-test, one-way and two-way ANOVA, bivariate and
multiple linear regression, Chi-squared, and logistic regression. Most of these tests will
have the corresponding non-parametric procedure.
• Carry out the power analysis for each of the statistics tests mentioned above.

Course Description
IBM SPSS Statistics 28 is a comprehensive system for analyzing data. SPSS can take data from
almost any type of file and use them to generate tabulated reports, charts, and plots of
distributions and trends, descriptive statistics, and complex statistical analyses. SPSS makes
statistical analysis more accessible for the beginner and more convenient for the experienced
user. Simple menus and dialog box selections make it possible to perform complex analyses
without typing a single line of command syntax. The Data Editor offers a simple and efficient
spreadsheet-like facility for entering data and browsing the working data set.

This course has not been designed to teach statistics. Participants must know basic or
advanced statistics to take this course. Some background material needs to be covered to
understand the analysis, but the theory behind each analysis will not be explained.

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The dynamic of the course will follow taking the background knowledge quiz, reading the
tutorial, watching the videos, and carrying out tutorial and skill activities. There are
exercises for the people who want more practice, and they are strongly recommended. The
course is self-paced, and we have seven modules scheduled as explained below.

Course Content

Data preparation
• Getting familiar with the interface
• Enter, save, and import data from Excel
• Carry out different data preparation processes
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Exploratory Data Analysis
• EDA for one or more variables
• Create charts for one variable
• Transform data
• Transforming scale into categorical variable
Inferential statistics for the mean and the median
• Descriptive statistics for two or more variables
• Creating and editing charts for two or more variables
• Inferential statistics for the mean and the median

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• One-sample t-test and sign test
• T-test and Mann-Whitney U Test
• Paired-difference t-test & Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test
• Power Analysis for t-test
ANOVA and simple linear regression
• One-way and two-way ANOVA & Kruskal-Wallis Test
• Bivariate linear regression and quantile regression
• Power Analysis for ANOVA
Multiple linear regression
• Multiple linear regression, quantile regression, and correlation
• Model building and selection
• Interpreting regression coefficients and confidence intervals
• Quantifying and dealing with multicollinearity
• Power Analysis for linear regression
Inferential statistics for the proportion
• Inferential statistics for categorical variables:
• One-sample binomial test
• One-sample Chi-square
• Chi-Squared Test of Independence
• Power Analysis for the proportion
Logistic regression
• Assumptions
• Estimating and interpreting regression coefficients and confidence intervals
• Maximum likelihood estimator and Wald statistics
• Modeling scale, binary and categorical variables
• Testing the linearity assumption
• Power analysis for logistic regression

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 Pre-Requisites
Since this course does not teach statistics, and it has been designed for faculty, staff,
postdoctoral candidates, TAs, and graduate students, at least a graduate-level statistics course
must be taken before enrolling. The content of the course follows the main statistical
procedures covered by STA 6126 and STA 6127 at the University of Florida. Hence, it
summarizes these two courses. Other statistical courses that can be used as examples are the
following: EDF 6402, EDF 6403, EDF 7405, ALS 5932, and HLP 6515 at the University of Florida.
Furthermore, participants must have taken the LinkedIn Learning training named “SPSS
Statistics Essential Training” (10 chapters except factor analysis and principal component
analysis, reliability analysis, and all topics of Chapter 7) and must have emailed the certificate of
completion to Dr. Jose Silva-Lugo (joselugo@ufl.edu) before the course starts. If you are in
doubt about registering in this course, please email the syllabus of the statistics course that you
completed to Dr. Silva-Lugo, and he will let you know whether you can enroll.

SPSS Textbooks
Below is the most current list of textbooks in SPSS. The cheapest ones are George’s and
Kerr’s; the last one follows the same structure of research methodology used in this course.

• Aldrich, J. O. and J. B. Cunnigham. 2015. Using IBM SPSS Statistics: An interactive hand-
on approach. 2nd Edition. SAGE Publications, Washington DC, USA.
• Cronk, B. C. 2017. How to use SPSS: a step-by-step guide to analysis and interpretation.
9th Edition. Routledge, New York, USA.
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• Denis, D. 2019. SPSS Data Analysis for Univariate, Bivariate and Multivariate Statistics.
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, NJ.
• Field, A. P. 2018. Discovering Statistics using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Method). 5th
Edition. SAGE Publications Ltd., California, USA.
• George, D. and P. Mallery. 2018. SPSS Statistics 23 Step-by-Step: A Simple Guide and
Reference 15th Edition. Routledge, New York, USA.
• Green, Samuel B. and Neil J. Salkind. 2016. Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh:
Analyzing and Understanding Data. 8th Edition. Pearson, New York, USA
• Ho, Robert. 2014. Handbook of Univariate and Multivariate Data Analysis and
Interpretation with SPSS. 2nd Edition. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
• Kerr, A. W., H. K. Hall., and S. A. Kozub. 2014. Doing Statistics with SPSS. SAGE
Publications, California, USA.
• Leech, Nancy L.; Karen C. Barrett; and George A. Morgan. 2014. SPSS for Intermediate
Statistics: Use and Interpretation. 5th Edition. Routledge, New York, USA.
• Maujis, D. Doing Quantitative Research in Education with SPSS. 2nd Edition. SAGE
Publications, California, USA.
• McCormick, K., J. Salcedo, J. Pock, and A. Wheeler. 2017. SPSS Statistics for Data Analysis
and Visualization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Indianapolis, IN.
• Pallant, J. 2016. SPSS Survival Manual. 6th Edition. McGraw Hill, Berkshire, England
 • Wagner, W. E. 2016. Using IBM SPSS Statistics for Research Methods and Social Science
Statistics. 6th Edition. SAGE, California, USA.
• Wilson-Doenges, G. 2014. SPSS for Research Methods: A Basic Guide. John Willey and
Sons, New York, USA.

Statistics Textbooks
If you have not used statistical analysis for some time and do not remember the concepts
and procedures, you must review them before taking the SPSS course. Below are two good
textbooks that I recommend.

• Field, A. P. 2018. Discovering Statistics using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Method). 5th
Edition. SAGE Publications Ltd., California, USA.

• Ramsey, F. and D. W. Schaefer. 2013. The Statistical Sleuth: A Course in Methods of Data
Analysis. 3rd Edition. Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning, USA.

Commitment with the Course

All modules are mandatory. Particularly, the first two modules are essential because the skills

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learned from them will be needed in the other modules. Your participation is critical to
successfully complete the course because this is a fast paced, intensive hands-on, 9-week
course on elementary statistical analysis.

Please, allow me to explain what participation means. If you are interested in this course, you
must follow the workflow: take the background knowledge survey, study the tutorial and other
resources, watch the videos, and do the tutorial and skill activities. If you have time, it is
strongly recommended to do the exercises. Yes, it is exactly like taken a registered course. The
only difference is that the final grade will not be included in your accumulative GPA. If you are
planning to attend the course just to take the materials and watch some videos, this course is
not for you, and I will highly appreciate that you give your seat to a more interested student.
You will not be allowed to participate in the next module if you fail to follow the workflow
and do not have a score equal or greater than 80 points in the tutorial and skill activities.

Getting to Class
This is an online course implemented though the course management system “Canvas” at the
University of Florida. Since the course is self-paced, you are in control of the time spent in each
module. You can access a Module by clicking on Home and selecting the topic taught in that
module or you can go to the Modules tool in the Navigation Bar. Each module has background
knowledge, resources, objectives, learning materials, activities (tutorial and skill) with feedback,
and optional exercises. The recommended readings and learning materials have all the content
required for you to learn and to satisfactorily pass all evaluations. If you follow the workflow,

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 you guarantee your learning. The course will open on January 9th at 8:00 am and will end on
March 10th at 5:00 pm. No extension will be offered!

Course Evaluation and Certificate

Since the course is online, it requires you to be focused, a high level of interest, motivation,
responsibility, and excellent communication skills. It is your responsibility to go over the
materials, learn, and practice the statistical procedures. You are committed to work and
learn mainly independently.

If you read the tutorial and watch the videos, you will have enough information to carry out
successfully the tutorial and skill activities. Each module has additional references if you are
interested to obtain more information. You will be able to read the tutorial online, but you will
not be able to download it or to print it.

I will evaluate your knowledge, skills, and your level of satisfaction. Knowledge and skills will
be assessed by using the tutorial and skill activities, respectively. Both evaluations will be
scored in Canvas automatically. You will also have the opportunity to evaluate the course with
a satisfaction survey at the end of the course. If you want to work in teams, you are welcome
to do so. Please, notify me if you are creating a group.
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A forum will be available in each module. The main objective is to establish a collaboration
among participants. You will be allowed to ask questions about the activities. I am sure that
your classmates will answer those questions to help you out to move on in your workflow.

This course will give you the tutorial and a certificate if you participate in the seven modules
and obtain a passing score equal or greater than 80% as your final grade in Canvas. The
tutorial is a book in pdf format that I wrote down with the only purpose to be given to
students who pass the course. The 3rd edition was published in November 2021.

Cheating or lying in any form will not be tolerated. If you are caught under any of these
inexcusable behaviors, you will be dismissed from the course.

Grades and Grading Scheme

The tutorial and skill activities will have a weight of 40% and 60%, respectively.

The Grading Scheme is as follows:

Score From (%) To (%)

A 100 94.0
A- <94.0 90.0
B+ <90.0 87.0
B <87.0 84.0
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 B- <84.0 80.0
C+ <80.0 77.0
C <77.0 74.0
C- <74.0 70.0
D+ <70.0 67.0
D <67.0 64.0
D- <64.0 60.0
E <60.0 0.0

Any score below B- is considered failure in this course.

Accommodation for Students with disabilities

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If you need classroom accommodation because of a disability, you must register with the
Disability Resource Center. This office will provide you several forms, and one of them must be
turned in to the instructor. Since some of these accommodations require time to be in place, I
will appreciate that the form is giving to me with two weeks in advanced.

General Notice to Participants

Course Policies
• You are responsible for following the workflow and for studying all materials and
resources posted within the course in Canvas.
• You are responsible for submitting all activities in Canvas.
• The course starts on 01/09/2023 (8:00 am) and ends on 03/10/2023 (5:00 pm).
Therefore, plan well your daily work to make sure that you can successfully complete
this course. No extension will be given under any circumstances.
• If you have questions about the course, evaluations, or grades, please contact me
at joselugo@ufl.edu or through the email in Canvas.

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 SPSS and Sample Power License
UF faculty and students can use SPSS Statistics v.27 and Power Sample 3 free from UF Apps at:
https://apps.ufl.edu/vpn/index.html. This option is not available for staff yet. If you are
interested to purchase the license for one year, faculty, staff and students can obtain the
license for SPSS Statistics v.27 and Sample Power 3 at the Help Desk. Follow this link:
http://helpdesk.ufl.edu/software-services/spss/ to know the academic price and how to
acquire the software.

Software Use
All faculty, staff, and students at the University are required to obey the laws and legal
agreements regarding software use. It is Illegal to copy licensed and/or copy written materials.
This is a third-degree felony under Florida law. Failure to do so can lead to monetary damages
and/or criminal penalties for the individual violator. Because such violations are also against
university policies and rules, disciplinary action will be taken as appropriate. The Office of
Academic Technology and the members of the University of Florida community, pledge to hold
our peers and ourselves to the highest standards of honesty and integrity.

UF Counseling Services
Resources are available on campus for students having personal problems or lacking clear
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career and academic goals that interfere with their academic performance. These resources
include:

1. U Matter We Care, 352-294-2273 | umatter@ufl.edu, help for students in distress

2. Counseling and Wellness Center, 3190 Radio Road, 392-1575, personal, sexual assault, and
career counseling

3. Career Resources Center, Reitz Union, 392-1601, career development assistance and
counseling