Reference · the software
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The click-path, the code, and the sentence.

Every analysis in the course, three ways: where the menu is in SPSS, where it is in jamovi, what the line of R looks like — plus how to read the output and one APA sentence you can adapt. Qualitative work gets the same treatment in NVivo.

Find my analysis → The eight-step workflow SPSS output decoder
Get the software

Nine tools, five of them free

You need one quantitative package and, if you do interviews, one qualitative one. Everything else on this list is a specialist instrument you will reach for two or three times a year. Links open the official site.

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The recipes

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Filter by what you are doing, or type the name of a test, a menu, a function or a statistic. Each card ends with the output trap and a model sentence.

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Reading the output
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Before any of it

Eight steps, in this order, every time

Most analysis disasters are not statistical. They happen in steps one to four, and they are invisible by the time anyone reads the results.

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Decoder

What the output is actually telling you

The dozen lines of SPSS output that are most often misread, and what each one should become in your results section.

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Where next

Software is the last question, not the first

Decide the analysis from the design, understand what it does, then come here for the clicks. In that order the output is readable; in the other order it is a wall of tables.

The primer: intuition first → Which test should I run? Learn R properly