Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics - Softcover

Sweet, Stephen A.; Grace-Martin, Karen A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0205863728 ISBN 13: 9780205863723

Publisher: Pearson, 2011

Synopsis

Data Analysis with SPSS is designed to teach students how to explore data in a systematic manner using the most popular professional social statistics program on the market today. Written in ten manageable chapters, this book first introduces students to the approach researchers use to frame research questions and the logic of establishing causal relations. Students are then oriented to the SPSS program and how to examine data sets. Subsequent chapters guide them through univariate analysis, bivariate analysis, graphic analysis, and multivariate analysis. Students conclude their course by learning how to write a research report and by engaging in their own research project. Each book is packaged with a disk containing the GSS (General Social Survey) file and the States data files. The GSS file contains 100 variables generate

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      Data analysis with SPSS is designed to teach students how to examine data in a systematic manner using the most popular professional social science statistics program on the market today. It provides a succinct introduction to the empirical foundations of research with exercises that provide guided hands-on experience, research projects that open opportunities for independent data exploration, and guidance on how write research-based reports.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0205863728
• ISBN 13: 9780205863723
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 288