Hi,

  Jon Patton has already suggested a good starting point, and you should follow up with Jon as needed for further help - he is very familiar with SPSS.

  I don't know if you have access to SPSS to look at the online help, so I wanted to mention that it is installed in many of the computer labs on campus - for example the CIM at King Library should have SPSS.  It is also available for installation on university owned machines - Dr. Ryan would need to submit a request to the support desk ([log in to unmask] ).  It can also be purchased for installation on a student owned machine through e-Academy (http://e5.onthehub.com/WebStore/ProductsByMajorVersionList.aspx?ws=d6469704-9910-dd11-89b0-0030485a6b08&vsro=8&JSEnabled=1 ) and maybe through the bookstore as well.

  Let me know if you need any more help with this.

Dave


David Woods, Ph. D
Assistant Director for Research Computing
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Miami University
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-----Original Message-----
From: Research Computing Support [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lane Clegg
Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 2:44 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: JRN Project

To Whom it May Concern,

My name is Lane Clegg and I am currently a Senior Dean's Scholar here  
at Miami. For the past year I have been working on an independent  
study, with Dr. Kathleen Ryan in the Journalism department, in the  
form of a content analysis that will study potential media bias in the  
last presidential election. In order to continue with my study I need  
to establish Inter Coder Reliability with my coding and was hoping to  
do so through SPSS. Is there any way that I could attend a short  
introduction to SPSS so that I can become more familiar with the  
software? I only need it for Inter coder reliability and to find  
correlations. For the purposes of my study I am looking to compare  
numbers across networks to test for bias.

Please let me know what I need to do in order to become familiar with  
and use the SPSS software.

Thank you,

Lane Clegg