About Stats Help
Stats Help has been offering statistics and SPSS training courses since 2008. Stats Help is owned and run by Catherine Wong, who personally teaches all training courses.
Catherine Wong is an experienced corporate trainer and specialises in communicating statistical concepts in a relevant and approachable manner. She has taught students with a huge range of backgrounds, in areas from Agriculture, Business, Medicine, Marketing, Market Research and everything in between.
Catherine began academic teaching in statistics at The University of NSW (UNSW) in 1998. In 2000 she commenced employment as a trainer for SPSS Australasia where she also had statistical consulting and data mining roles.
About SPSS
SPSS is a software package built specifically for statistical analysis. SPSS also refers to the company that used to develop and sell the SPSS product.
SPSS was also the name of the company that sold SPSS and SPSS training courses. SPSS was a US company and had a branch in Sydney (SPSS Australasia Pty Ltd) that looked after Australia and parts of South East Asia. SPSS is now owned by IBM so is now referred to as “SPSS an IBM company”. The SPSS website is now part of the IBM site.
As a result of being taken over by IBM, the SPSS the software package has undergone a couple of name changes over the last few years. Older versions of SPSS are still referred to by these names. SPSS Statistics, PASW Statistics and IBM SPSS Statistics all refer to past versions of the product formerly known as SPSS (or more correctly SPSS Base), they are not different software packages.