SPSS requires users to specify which analysis they would like to perform prior to seeing output, while JMP prefers users to specify a general direction first and then customize interactively. This link leads to a different perspective for data analysis, one which this whitepaper guide, by Jason Brinkley of the American Institutes for Research, explores. The data set is taken from an experiment conducted in by students from an introductory statistics class at The University of Queensland.
Topics covered include:
- Preparing and cleaning data.
- Data visualization.
- Descriptive statistics.
- Inference.
- Data manipulation.
- Saving and reproducing output.