Statistical Packages Support Page
This list is intended to facilitate knowledge-sharing between faculty and staff at UWGB who actively use SAS or SPSS in their research.
If you have come to this page hoping to learn how to use either SAS or SPSS, you could participate in training programs offered by those vendors. You could also enroll in a UWGB course in which one of the packages is used, such as Introductory Statistics (MATH 260) or Social Science Statistics (Comm Sci 205).
Colleague Support List
| Colleague | Unit | Use of SAS for Research | Use of SPSS for Research | Other packages used frequently | Skills, commonly-used procedures, other comments |
| Lucy Arendt | Business Administration (Management) | Some | Frequently | LISREL | Descriptive statistics, ANOVA, correlation, regression, factor, reliability, structural equation modeling, limited WABA |
| Derryl Block | Nursing | No | Some | No | Basic statistics |
| Bill Conley | Business Administration (Statistics) | No | Some | Own code | TSP Statistics, Statistical Optimization |
| Debbie Furlong | Institutional Research and Assessment | Frequently | Frequently | No | Moving data between applications; working with large data sets; survey research; basic stats -- regression, general linear models, t-test, factor analysis; descriptive procedures -- tables, tabulate |
| Scott Furlong | Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dean (Political Science) | No | Frequently | No | Survey research, univariate and descriptive statistics, regression, t-test, ANOVA |
| Regan Gurung | Human Development (Psychology) | No | Frequently | No | Correlation analyses, ANOVA, MANOVA, MANCOVA, GLM, basic statistics. |
| Bob Howe | Natural and Applied Sciences (Biology) | Some | No | Systat, PC-ORD, ArcGIS | Minimal use of the campus-licensed packages |
| Mimi Kubsch | Nursing | No | Some | No | Basic descriptive and inferential statistics |
| Illene Noppe | Human Development (Psychology, Women's Studies) | No | Frequently | No | Basic statistical methods |
| Kristin Vespia | Human Development | No | Frequently | No | ANOVA, correlational analyses, basic statistics (frequencies, etc.), and chi-square |
| Lora Warner | Public and Environmental Affairs | No | Frequently | No | Basic descriptive and inferential statistics, survey research, graphing through MS Excel |
| Georjeanna Wilson-Doenges | Urban & Regional Studies (Psychology) | No | Frequently | No | ANOVA, Correlation analyses, Data Screening techniques, Regression; limited use of Structural Equation modeling |
Related Resources
- Contact Diane Blohowiak to borrow any of CIT's excellent SAS and SPSS guides.
- SAS training information is available at www.sas.com under "Support & Training"; SAS offers a 50% discount to higher education for most in-person training, and has training locations in Chicago and Minneapolis.
- SPSS training information is available at www.spss.com under "Training"; SPSS offers a 30% discount to higher education for most in-person training, and also has training locations in Chicago and Minneapolis.
- The University of Georgia sponsors listservs for both SAS and SPSS. Archives and instructions to subscribe are located at:
If you know of a useful resources to document on this page, send it to Debbie Furlong at furlongd@uwgb.edu.