Statistical package for social scientists - A preparatory exposition. In: Winter School on Impact of Climate Change on Indian Marine Fisheries held at CMFRI, Cochin 18.1.2008 to 7.2.2008

Abstract

SPSS is a package developed originally for social scientists using large mainframe computers. Since then it has been refined and redeveloped for different types of architecture including Windows. It is an extensive package with facilities for data entry, data manipulation and statistical analysis in a graphical environment. It has modules for survey analysis, graphical display and time series. The package has been considerably improved to include logistic regression and repeated measures analysis and much more which probably can be explored while experiencing the functionalities of the package.