A Student Guide to SPSS

The 3^rd edition of A Student Guide to SPSS provides easy to follow step-by-step instructions on how to compute introductory and advanced statistics using one of the most popular statistical software programs in psychology, business, education, and other social sciences. Written in a non-intimidating, easy to read language, this guide is suitable for individuals with little to no experience using statistical software. As such, it would be of practical use to anyone who needs a simple and straightforward introduction to the most commonly used features of SPSS.

This guide to SPSS was originally developed to complement the lecture component of introductory undergraduate courses in statistics. The 2^nd and 3^rd editions were expanded to increase the guide’s suitability for more advanced undergraduate statistics courses. While most statistics textbooks teach students how to hand calculate statistics, this guide gives students the opportunity to learn how to analyze large datasets not conducive to hand calculations, providing them with the practical skills necessary for graduate school and/or a career in research.

Features

• Learning objectives at the beginning of each chapter help students keep on track and instructors apprised of the functions that students have learned so they can create SPSS assignments for students.
• Concrete examples with screenshots of SPSS are used throughout to make it easier for students to learn how to compute and interpret statistics.
• Examples of reporting statistics in the style of the American Psychological Association (APA)- using the 7^th edition of their manual- are included.

New to the Third Edition

• Throughout the guide, elaborations on the meaning and interpretation of various statistics and demonstrations of more advanced statistical analyses have been added.
• The chapter on multiple regression has been expanded to include a new example that describes how to include a nominal predictor variable with more than two categories in a multiple regression analysis as well as how to interpret the results.
• A brief discussion of the tolerance statistic has been added to the advanced regression chapter.
• The chapter on one-way ANOVA has been expanded to include one-way within-groups ANOVA (in addition to one-way between-groups ANOVA).

Content

• The 3^rd edition of A Student Guide to SPSS contains 9 chapters on getting started with SPSS, descriptive statistics, correlation, simple regression, multiple regression, advanced regression (hierarchal regression, stepwise regression), the sign test, t-tests (single sample, paired samples, independent samples), and one-way ANOVA (one-way between, one-way within).