About this site
[Page last updated 17 Sep 2017]
This site contains more than 120 html pages (including hidden pages) accessed via sub-menus which pop-out from the main menu at the left of the screen. To date there are more than 700 pages of SPSS and related tutorials in addition to any information on the web pages themselves.
[NB: Many, but not all, of my materials are also on my page on www.academia.edu where for the past three years it has been consistently among the top 3% of hits. Users are always advised to transfer from that site to this (where entries are more up-to-date) but many of them don't. You can see a count of page-hits on the other site and detailed analysis of pages read during the last 60 days]
New materials are being added regularly, so apologies if some pages keep appearing and disappearing in the left pane, or the catalogues and listings are not quite up-to-date. It shouldn't affect your use of the site, but I occasionally need to publish hidden pages to verify contents and correct functioning of associated links.
Most pages contain links to other pages and/or to one or more of dozens of tutorials, reports, SPSS *.sps, *.sav and other files as well as to useful on-line resources.
I'm currently using SPSS 24, but all syntax exercises and examples work with earlier releases (and mostly with 11). All downloadable tutorials are set in 11-point Arial and optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm). They are legible even if printed two pages to a sheet (to save trees and minimise printing costs). Files prepared up to June 2011 are in *.doc format from Word 2003. As of April 2017 I am using Word 2016 which can save files in *.pdf format with fully functioning hyperlinks. These retain all original page formatting and are much quicker to display. Hopefully *.pdf files will gradually replace all files currently in *.doc or *.docx format]
As of September 2017 new pages have been added and menus have been completely re-organised, to make the site easier to navigate and use. You can scroll up and down the menus at left to see what there is, but I have also created a new page How to use this site and a new document Guide to page and pop-out menus with full screenshots of all menus and sub-menus. They may not always be quite up-to-date, but they will help to get you started.
IT wizard
I am extremely grateful to Terry Blom, my neighbour and fellow ex-pat (early) retiree (previously IT Manager, Natwest Bank) without whose unstinting technical support and engineering know-how, the site wouldn't exist at all.
This site contains more than 120 html pages (including hidden pages) accessed via sub-menus which pop-out from the main menu at the left of the screen. To date there are more than 700 pages of SPSS and related tutorials in addition to any information on the web pages themselves.
[NB: Many, but not all, of my materials are also on my page on www.academia.edu where for the past three years it has been consistently among the top 3% of hits. Users are always advised to transfer from that site to this (where entries are more up-to-date) but many of them don't. You can see a count of page-hits on the other site and detailed analysis of pages read during the last 60 days]
New materials are being added regularly, so apologies if some pages keep appearing and disappearing in the left pane, or the catalogues and listings are not quite up-to-date. It shouldn't affect your use of the site, but I occasionally need to publish hidden pages to verify contents and correct functioning of associated links.
Most pages contain links to other pages and/or to one or more of dozens of tutorials, reports, SPSS *.sps, *.sav and other files as well as to useful on-line resources.
I'm currently using SPSS 24, but all syntax exercises and examples work with earlier releases (and mostly with 11). All downloadable tutorials are set in 11-point Arial and optimised for printing on European A4 sheet size (297 x 210 mm). They are legible even if printed two pages to a sheet (to save trees and minimise printing costs). Files prepared up to June 2011 are in *.doc format from Word 2003. As of April 2017 I am using Word 2016 which can save files in *.pdf format with fully functioning hyperlinks. These retain all original page formatting and are much quicker to display. Hopefully *.pdf files will gradually replace all files currently in *.doc or *.docx format]
As of September 2017 new pages have been added and menus have been completely re-organised, to make the site easier to navigate and use. You can scroll up and down the menus at left to see what there is, but I have also created a new page How to use this site and a new document Guide to page and pop-out menus with full screenshots of all menus and sub-menus. They may not always be quite up-to-date, but they will help to get you started.
IT wizard
I am extremely grateful to Terry Blom, my neighbour and fellow ex-pat (early) retiree (previously IT Manager, Natwest Bank) without whose unstinting technical support and engineering know-how, the site wouldn't exist at all.