ABSTRACT
Before any data can be analyzed by SPSS with the technique termed analysis of variance (ANOVA), the data to be analyzed must be introduced to, or entered into, SPSS. Subsequent chapters explain how to perform the several variants of ANOVA presuming that the data are already entered. This chapter’s focus is to provide information on how to get the variables into SPSS beforehand. Methods for reading in or directly entering the data are described, as well as those for performing simple data transformations (e.g., computing an average).
