SPSS Stands for:
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
SPSS, what is that?
SPSS Statistics is a software package used for statistical analysis. Long produced by SPSS Inc., SPSS is a widely used program for statistical analysis in social science. It is also used by market researchers, health researchers, survey companies, government, education researchers, marketing organizations, data miners, and others. The original SPSS manual (Nie, Bent & Hull, 1970) has been described as one of "sociology's most influential books" for allowing ordinary researchers to do their own statistical analysis. In addition to statistical analysis, data management (case selection, file reshaping, creating derived data) and data documentation (a metadata dictionary was stored in the datafile) are features of the base software.
Importance of SPSS
Data presentation is one of the most crucial steps in a dissertation. An effective presentation of the data not only allows the researcher to analyze the data but it also helps the user of the dissertation to understand the data. In this context, there are a number of different measures are adopted by the researcher for presenting the data. SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is one of the most preferred tools adopted by different researchers to present data in their research work.
In addition to this, SPSS software can also be proved quite useful for the purpose of graphical representation of the raw data. With the help of the SPSS application, different graphs based on different complex data can be drawn easily and effectively. It reduces the time and efforts of the researcher employed in the process of drawing the graphs based on the data.
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