Here is your opportunity to get familiar with using syntax (code) in a statistical software package.  You may have used other statistical packages, but each one has a unique syntax.  Although once you become comfortable with the idea of using syntax, it’s not so difficult to move from one program to the next and learn the unique commands and syntax structure for each.

One benefit of SPSS, is that most of the procedures accessed in the interface menus actually allow you to paste the code for those procedures into a syntax file.  This can be a great way to get comfortable with using syntax.  Let’s have a go at doing this now!