New statistical method

Learning a new statistical method can be grueling even when enrolled in a course that is supposed to teach you how it works. naturally, learning a new technique without the guidance of an expert is, to say the least, a hair pulling frustration. The kaplan-meier statistical technique is easy to run using SPSS although the process of getting to that point is baffling. The method is not frequently used for the work that i do although it is known to be a reliable technique. Given that not many people use it means that there are very few informative examples on the web. This leaves me to figure out exactly how i need to arrange the data in order to get the desired results. As a result I end up spending many hours preparing the data in a manner that is not suitable for SPSS, leaving me to rearrange the data again but this time with a little more knowledge about how not to do it.