Using SPSS to Understand Research and Data Analysis.

• 2.2b Logging in to a Local Area Network (LAN)

Different computers may have different operating systems, so you will have to learn the procedures specific to your computer system. If you do not already know how to log on to your computer system (or you do not know your username and password), we suggest that you learn how to do this before reading further.

In other words, you need to be able to log on to your computer network in order to access the SPSS software. Typically, your computer center or your instructor will be able to provide you with these procedures. As an example, below we illustrate how one would log on to the network and access SPSS for Windows at our own university. To log on to our campus network, users must type a Username and Password in the Novell Login window that appears when a computer connected to our LAN is booted up (Figure 2.2).

After entering the username and password, a Novell-delivered Applications window will pop up with an interface in the left panel similar to Windows Explorer tree menu (Figure 2.3).

To access SPSS, the user clicks on the plus signs in front of various folders to navigate to the folder containing SPSS. At our institution, the user would click on the folders in the left panel of Figure 2.3 in this order: VU Campus Network, Academic Applications, Arts & Sciences, Psychology. After clicking the last folder, the SPSS icon appears in the right panel of the window. Double-clicking on this icon will start the SPSS program.