SPSS is fairly easy to learn given it's 'click-and-point' design. Also, there are various free tutorials available online that illustrate, step-by-step, how to conduct the kind of analysis you need. I recommend the statistics.laerd.com website (which was a lifesaver for me when I was a student). For instance, here's a tutorial for conducting a One-way ANOVA in SPSS:

https://statistics.laerd.com/spss-tutorials/one-way-anova-using-spss-statistics.php

There are also many text and video tutorials online showing how to create and modify graphs and charts in SPSS. If coding is not your thing, SPSS can be a great resource. However, the downsides are it is not as flexible as alternative software and is quite expensive (unless you have free access via your institution).

Best,

Blaine

It will not take much time to learn. You can use click-and-point (see a tutorial here: https://www.spss-tutorials.com/spss-syntax/). But the better option is using syntax. The syntax will help you to reproduce your work and allow you to edit/modify your work later. UCLA shares handy resources of SPPS codes with explanations (https://stats.idre.ucla.edu/spss/code/). Simon Fraser University also shares an excellent resource (https://www.sfu.ca/~jackd/SPSS/SPSS_19_Stat203_Guide.pdf). There are many books available, but I found this is very helpful (http://www.academia.dk/BiologiskAntropologi/Epidemiologi/PDF/SPSS_Statistical_Analyses_using_SPSS.pdf).

Analyzing data is very quick and easy there is no programming required.The ability to easily copy and paste the data into SPSS is a timesaver. Default graphics are not as good as the ones provided by other softwares (e.g., RStudio, SAS, Stata, GraphPad Prism, etc). In addition, info about effect size and confidence intervals is missing for many techniques. Also keep in mind that SPSS is not free and is fairly pricey. I so much prefer R studio, which provides free and open sources tools, and far more robust and useful statistical software. You can find helpful guidance for beginners and 6 gentle ways to get introduced to RStudio on this link: https://education.rstudio.com/learn/beginner/ and in a very friendly environment here https://dss.princeton.edu/training/RStudio101.pdf

Hope you find these helpful.

Some other respondents have emphasized the GUI in SPSS and suggested that one does not have to "program" anything. Even though much of what one might wish to do is available via point-and-click, I would encourage you right from the start to exit the GUI via the Paste button (to generate command syntax) rather than OK. As the following web-page explains, there are many excellent reaisons for learning to use command syntax.

• https://spsstools.net/en/syntax/learning-syntax/

The point about documentation is a very important one, I think, considering the so-called replication crisis that is troubling some fields of research. If an analysis has been done entirely via point-and-click, repeating the same analysis (e.g., after data entry errors are found and corrected) might be extremely difficult. If all steps of the analysis are carried out using syntax, on the other hand, repeating the analysis in exactly the same way is a piece of cake.

For each of the statistical tests, this website teach you step by step.

https://statistics.laerd.com/spss-tutorials/one-way-mancova-using-spss-statistics.php

It is very easy to learn.it user friendly....SPSS user manuals are available in online... varios tutorials are also available in youtube.