help with statistics

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I am doing some work with a program called SPSS in order to draw some conclusions on some data collected on the weekly unit intake of students. This data covers 5 courses and 5 years.
I am trying to find if the level of drinking has changed over the 5 years and if the attendance varies at all between sexes or even between the courses.

I can use the software to perform t-tests, anova's, histograms etc etc but I simply do not know where to start, as with things like Anova's I don't really know what the outputted data means.

Any pointers on which tests could be used to prove what?

 

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wow that's almost "how do I do statistics" and "how do I use SPSS". You'll likely need a lot of help mate, have you no statistics department at your university?

It is a small stats module in an engineering degree. We got set this work thurs and it is due in mon

 

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I have some text books but stats is like french to me - It just makes no sense!

Right now I am trying to determine whether the level of drinking over the years recorded has changed. Any pointers on that? I am 99% sure I need to do some sort of T test and some sort of ANOVA, but not sure which ones and why.