Running A T-Test in SPSS
SPSS: Statistical Package for Social Science
"SPSS 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 analysis."
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SPSS is the acronym of Statistical Package for the Social Science. SPSS is one of the most popular statistical packages which can perform highly complex data manipulation and analysis with simple instructions. It is designed for both interactive and non-interactive (batch) uses.
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Main Features of SPSS
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Opening data files, either in SPSS’ own file format or many others;
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editing data such as computing sums and means over columns or rows of data;
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creating tables and charts containing frequency counts or summary statistics over (groups of) cases;
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running inferential statistics such as ANOVA, regression and factor analysis;
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saving data and output in a wide variety of file formats.
