A Simple Guide to SPSS (R) for Political Science, International Edition - Softcover

Kidd Kirkpatrick

 
9781111353803: A Simple Guide to SPSS (R) for Political Science, International Edition

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A SIMPLE GUIDE TO SPSS FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE, International Edition is a supplemental text that can be used with another statistics or research methods text. Designed for Political Science majors, A SIMPLE GUIDE TO SPSS FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE, International Edition helps students navigate through SPSS while taking a statistics or research methods course. The text includes additional coverage of categorical dependent variables, sample problems, and data sets specifically for Political Science. The American National Election Studies (ANES) database is used for sample problems, providing students with well-known and widely used resources in Political Science.

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About the Author

Lee A. Kirkpatrick is Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of William and Mary, where he has taught since 1991. He teaches courses in statistics (introductory and advanced/graduate), research methods, and evolutionary psychology. He received his PhD in social/personality psychology from the University of Denver in 1988. Quentin Kidd received his PhD in political science from Texas Tech University in 1998. He is currently Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Government at Christopher Newport University, where he has taught since 1998. He teaches courses in research methods and American political behavior.

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PART 1: HOW TO USE IBM SPSS STATISTICS. 1. Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics. 2. Creating and Saving a Data Set. 3. The ANES 2008 Data Set. 4. Specifying Analyses. 5. Viewing and Manipulating Output. PART 2: PROCEDURES. 6. Frequency Distributions and Descriptive Statistics. 7. Making Comparisons. 8. One-Sample t-Test. 9. Independent-Samples t-Test. 10. One-Way Independent-Groups ANOVA. 11. Two-Way Independent-Groups ANOVA. 12. Correlations. 13. Simple Linear Regression. 14. Multiple Linear Regression. 15. Chi-Square Test of Independence. 16. Logistic Regression. Appendix: Data Transformations.

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ISBN 10:  1111353794 ISBN 13:  9781111353797
Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2012
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