You will do your work and save it on floppy diskettes. You will print a hardcopy of the SPSS exercises to hand in. Floppy disks will not be accepted. Exercises are due at the beginning of the Tuesday class after the week in which the relevant material is covered in class. Overviews of how to approach the exercises will be given in class.
Students do the exercises outside class time.
Learning SPSS will give you a valuable skill that you can use later in other courses, in internships, and on the job. SPSS is a standard statistical analysis program used in business, government, and other organizations. SAS is another similar statistical analysis package. It is less widely used and we will not include use of it in this course. SAS is, however, also available on the public UIC lab machines and you can experiment with it if you are interested.