Using Spss: An Interactive Hands-on Approach

Key Features Introduces each chapter with list of objectives indicating what will be learnt in the chapter, and after Chapter 3 the topics can be read in any order Provides easy to follow bulleted instructions, with items the reader should click on in boldface, and other important terms in italic Offers plentiful screenshots showing readers step-by-step where to enter data and other information Includes nonparametric tests in the same chapters as their related parametric tests, helping readers more quickly find the information they need About the Book: Using SPSS: An Interactive Hands-OnApproach This practical book can be used as a supplementary text or as aself-help guide through which the reader can learn to use SPSS ontheir own and at his or her own pace. The book uses statistics toteach SPSS, by interacting with the software and learning byinquiry and discovery. The book covers descriptive statistics,inferential statistics, and building graphs. Contents Preface First Encounters Navigating in SPSS Getting Data in and out of SPSS Levels of Measurement Entering Variables and Data and Validating Data Working with Data and Variables Using the SPSS Help Menu Creating Basic Graphs and Charts Editing and Embellishing Graphs Printing Data View, Variable View and Output Viewer Screens Basic Descriptive Statistics One-Sample t Test and a Binomial Test of Equality Independent Samples t Test and Mann-Whitney U Test Paired-Samples t test and Wilcoxon Test One-Way ANOVA and Kruskal-Wallis Test Two-Way (Factorial) ANOVA One-Way ANOVA Repeated Measures Test and Friedman Test Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) Pearsons Correlation and Spearmans Correlation Single Linear Regression Multiple Linear Regression Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Chi-Square Test of Independence Appendices Index Reviews This primer is an excellent resource for students learning thebasic functions of SPSS, the power of statistics, and the basicpremises underlying inferential and descriptive statistics.- Robert