Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh : Analyzing and Understanding Data,9780131465978

Using SPSS for Windows and Macintosh : Analyzing and Understanding Data

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Edition: 4th
ISBN13: 9780131465978
ISBN10: 013146597X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2008-01-01
Publisher(s): Prentice Hall
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Summary

Will help anyone use SPSS to successfully analyze data, interpret results, and describe findings. This complete introductory guide to SPSS has been thoroughly updated for the software's latest versions: 12.0 for Windows and 11.0 for Macintosh. It has also been revised throughout for greater accessibility, simplicity, and ease of use. The book provides step-by-step walkthroughs of every basic SPSS and statistical technique, along with tips, examples, exercises, and extensive pedagogical support designed to promote rapid learning. Coverage includes: mastering the SPSS interface; creating and working with data files; defining and creating variables; working with data, charts, and output; univariate descriptive statistics; univariate and multivariate analyses; correlation, regression, and discriminate analysis; scaling and nonparametric procedures; and more. For everyone who wants to master the latest versions of SPSS. SPSS is used in a wide range of markets, including psychology and other areas of scientific research; marketing and surveys; financial services and insurance; education; government; telecommunications; and beyond.

Table of Contents

Preface xi
Part I Introducing SPSS
1(1)
Unit 1 Getting Started with SPSS
1(22)
Starting SPSS
2(3)
The SPSS Main Menus and Toolbar
5(8)
Using SPSS Help
13(5)
A Brief SPSS Tour
18(5)
Unit 2 Creating and Working with Data Files
23(30)
Defining Variables
24(6)
Entering and Editing Data
30(6)
Inserting and Deleting Cases and Variables
36(4)
Selecting, Copying, Cutting, and Pasting Data
40(5)
Printing and Exiting an SPSS Data File
45(3)
Exporting and Importing SPSS Data
48(5)
Unit 3 Working with Data
53(20)
Finding Values, Variables, and Cases
54(4)
Recoding Data and Computing Values
58(6)
Sorting, Transposing, and Ranking Data
64(4)
Splitting and Merging Files
68(5)
Unit 4A Working with SPSS Charts and Output for Windows
73(22)
Creating an SPSS Chart
74(6)
Enhancing SPSS Charts
80(11)
Using the Viewer
91(4)
Unit 4B Working with SPSS Charts and Output for Macintosh
95(19)
Creating an SPSS Chart
96(6)
Enhancing SPSS Charts
102(8)
Using the Viewer
110(4)
Part II Working with SPSS Procedures
114(1)
Unit 5 Creating Variables and Computing Descriptive Statistics
114(40)
Creating Variables
116(13)
Univariate Descriptive Statistics for Qualitative Variables
129(9)
Univariate Descriptive Statistics for Quantitative Variables
138(16)
Unit 6 t Test Procedures
154(21)
One-Sample t Test
155(6)
Paired-Samples t Test
161(6)
Independent-Samples t Test
167(8)
Unit 7 Univariate and Multivariate Analysis-of-Variance Techniques
175(78)
One-Way Analysis of Variance
176(9)
Two-Way Analysis of Variance
185(22)
One-Way Analysis of Covariance
207(11)
One-Way Multivariate Analysis of Variance
218(10)
One-Way Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance
228(10)
Two-Way Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance
238(15)
Unit 8 Correlation, Regression, and Discriminant Analysis Procedures
253(58)
Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient
254(9)
Partial Correlations
263(10)
Bivariate Linear Regression
273(10)
Multiple Linear Regression
283(15)
Discriminant Analysis
298(13)
Unit 9 Scaling Procedures
311(38)
Factor Analysis
312(13)
Internal Consistency Estimates of Reliability
325(10)
Item Analysis Using the Reliability Procedure
335(14)
Unit 10 Nonparametric Procedures
349(66)
Binomial Test
350(7)
One-Sample Chi-Square Test
357(9)
Two-Way Contingency Table Analysis Using Crosstabs
366(11)
Two Independent-Samples Test: The Mann-Whitney U Test
377(6)
K Independent-Samples Tests: The Kruskal-Wallis and the Median Tests
383(12)
Two Related-Samples Tests: The McNemar, the Sign, and the Wilcoxon Tests
395(11)
K Related-Samples Tests: The Friedman and the Cochran Tests
406(9)
Appendix A Data for Crab Scale and Teacher Scale 415(2)
Appendix B Methods for Controlling Type I Error across Multiple Hypothesis Tests 417(3)
Appendix C Selected Answers to Lesson Exercises 420(26)
References 446(1)
Index 447

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