You will use SPSS to create histograms frequency distributions stem and leaf plots Tukey box plots calculate the standard measures of central tendency mean median and mode calculate the standard measures of dispersion range semi-interquartile range and standard deviation variance and calculate measures of kurtosis and skewness. Find the range and calculate standard deviation to compare and evaluate variability of data sets. It is especially useful for summarizing numeric variables simultaneously across categories.
To obtain the 3m from SPSS Analyze menu Descriptive Statistics.
Drag the variable of interest from the left into the Variables box on the right. If any variables have multiple modes the quickest way to find these is running bar charts over those. Use IBMs SPSS package to calculate the mean median and mode of a simple set of data. SPSS has a MEDIAN function for across columns.