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“These skills are neglected by most people who pick up the product on their own, and that’s a shame, because if you don’t know this stuff you can waste a heap of time, and get a lot less than the full value of SPSS.”
—Meta Brown, former long time employee of SPSS, author of Data Mining For Dummies, and a well-known analytics expert
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About the Authors
Jesus Salcedo (left) is an independent statistical and data-mining consultant who has been using SPSS products for more than 25 years. He has written numerous SPSS courses and trained thousands of users.
Keith McCormick (right) has been all over the world training and consulting in all things SPSS, statistics, and data mining. He now authors courses on the LinkedIn Learning platform and coaches executives on how to effectively manage their analytics teams.
What's in the 4th Edition of SPSS Statistics for Dummies
10 Most SPSS Common Mistakes
In one chapter, we list and address what we consider to be the 10 most common mistakes that new users to SPSS Statistics make.
Have you had trouble with any of these? Are any of them unfamiliar?
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Failing to declare Level of Measurement
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Values, Labels, and Strings
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Failing to declare Missing Data
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Add-on Modules and Plug-ins
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Statistical Assumptions
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Paste and Syntax
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Creating new variables
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Listwise Deletion
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Losing track of your Active Dataset
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Forgetting to turn off Select and Split and Weight
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