Data Analysis Using SPSS for Windows Versions 8 - 10: A Beginner′s Guide - Hardcover

Foster, Jeremy J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761969268 ISBN 13: 9780761969266

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001

Synopsis

A new edition of this best-selling introductory book to cover the latest SPSS versions 8.0 - 10.0

This book is designed to teach beginners how to use SPSS for Windows, the most widely used computer package for analysing quantitative data. Written in a clear, readable and non-technical style the author explains the basics of SPSS including the input of data, data manipulation, descriptive analyses and inferential techniques, including;

- creating using and merging data files

- creating and printing graphs and charts

- parametric tests including t-tests, ANOVA, GLM

- correlation, regression and factor analysis

- non parametric tests and chi square

• reliability

- obtaining neat print outs and tables

- includes a CD-Rom containing example data files, syntax files, output files and Excel spreadsheets.

About this title

About the Author

Dr Jeremy Foster is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Speech Therapy at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Review

`Our favourite page is the Figure 2.3: "Deciding which statistical test to use". It′s a full-page flow diagram indicating what statistical method should be recommended for which type of research situation...and it′s fun′ - Bulletin de Me[ac]thodologie Sociologique

`In a marketplace full of books about computer-aided data analysis [the book] stands out as an excellent example of the genre. It is concise, but covers all of the essentials that are needed to use SPSS versions 8 to 10 effectively′ - Journal of Biosocial Science

". . . invaluable to everybody who needs to learn to use SPSS effectively in his research." 

Author: O. Kukush

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0761969268
• ISBN 13: 9780761969266
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 272