1- An introduction to computing with SPSS. 2- Organization and coding of data for INPUT into the SPSS system. 3- SPSS control cards. 4- Defining an SPSS file: the data-definition cards. 5- Controlling the calculations: the task-definition cards. 6- The run cards. 7- Generating and processing SPSS files: card order and deck setup. 8- Recording and variable transformation: the data-modification cards. 9- data-Selection cards. 10- Retrieving data and descriptive information from SPSS system files: the file retrieval (list and write) cards. 11- Adding to, deleting from, and rearranging data in SPSS system files: the file-modification cards. 12- Creating, retrieving, and manipulating files with more than 500 varaibles: get archive, save archive, and list archinfo cards. 13- Editing SPSS control-cards decks: the edit facility. 14- Descriptive statistics and one-way frequency distributions. 15- Producing descriptive statistics for aggregated data files: subprogram aggregate. 16- Contingency tables and related measures of association: subprogram crosstabs. 17- Description of subpopulations and mean difference testing: subprograms breakdown and T-Test. 18- Bivariate correlation analysis: pearson correlation, rank-order correlation, and scatter diagrams. 19- Partial correlation: subprogram partial CORR. 20- Multiple regression analysis: subprogram regression. 21- Special topics in general linear models. 22- Analysis of variance and covariance: subprograms ANOVA and ONEWAY. 23- Discriminant analysis. 24- Factor analysis. 25- Canonical correlation analysis: subprogram CANCORR. 26- Scalogram analysis: subprogram GUTMAN SCALE. Appendixes (A to J). Indexes.