In this comprehensive introduction to SPSS the authors make potentially complicated procedures and concepts easy to understand, easy to complete, and fun to work with. Readers are taught not only how to complete a procedure within SPSS but also how to ensure that the results are statistically meaningful. INDICE: PART I: INTRODUCTION TO SPSS: A USER FRIENDLY APPROACH - Don't Panic! - How to Use this Book - Data Analysis as a Decision-Making Process - Summary - Practice Exercises - PART II: BASIC OPERATIONS - Three Windows - Data Editor - Syntax Files - Output Files - Summary - Practice Exercises - Notes - PART III: FINDING SUMS - Setting Up the Data - Running the Analysis - Reading the Output - Finding S X2, S Y2, and other Complex Summations - Find the Sums and Interpret the Output - More Compute Operators - Summary - Practice Exercises- PART IV: FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS AND CHARTS - Setting Up the Data - Obtaining Frequency Tables - Obtaining Frequency Charts - Obtaining Charts of Means -Summary - Practice Exercises - PART V: DESCRIBING DISTRIBUTIONS - Setting Up the Data - Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode - Measures of Variability: Range, Variance, and Standard Deviation - Measures of Normality: Skewness and Kurtosis - Summary - Practice Exercises - PART VI: COMPUTE STATEMENTS: RESERVING SCORES, COMBINING SCORES, AND CREATING Z-SCORES - Setting Up the Data - Reverse Scoring Variables - Generating Multi-Item Scale Scores - Generating Z-Scores - Summary - Practice Exercises - PART VII: COMPARING MEANS INSPSS (t-Tests) - Setting Up the Data - One-Sample t-test - Independent-Samples t-Test - Paired-Samples t-Test - Summary - Practice Exercises - PART VIII: ONE-WAY ANOVA: MEANS COMPARISON WITH TWO OR MORE GROUPS - Setting Up the Data -Running the Analyses - Reading the One-Way ANOVA Output - Summary - Practice Exercises - PART IX: FACTORIAL ANOVA - Setting Up the Data - Running the Analysis - Reading the Output for a Two-Way ANOVA - Simple Effects Testing - Summary - Practice Exercises - References - PART XI: REPEATED-MEASURES ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE - One-Way Repeated-Measures ANOVA - Mixed-Model Repeated-Measures ANOVA - Summary - Practice Exercises - PART XII: REGRESSION AND CORRELATION - Setting Up the Data - Correlation - Simple Linear Regression - Obtaining the Scatterplot - Summary - Practice Exercises - PART XIII: MULTIPLE RESGRESSION - Setting Up the Data - Simultaneous Entry of Two Predictor Variables - Varying the Order of Entry: Hierarchical Multiple Regression - Using Automated Strategies for Selecting Predictor Variables - Summary - Practice Exercises - PART XIV: CHI-SQUARE - Setting Up the Data - The Goodness-of-Fit Chi Square - Pearson's Chi-Square - Summary - Practice Exercises - References - PART XV: RELIABILITY -Setting Up the Data - Test-Retest and Parallel Forms Reliability - Split-halfReliability - Cronbach's Alpha - Concluding Comments on GSR Scale - Summary -Practice Exercise - PART XVI: FACTOR ANALYSIS - Setting Up the Data - Goals of Factor Analysis - Running a Factor Analysis in SPSS - Reading the SPSS Output for Factor Analysis - Summary - Practice Exercises
- ISBN: 978-1-4292-2418-5
- Editorial: W.H. Freeman
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 144
- Fecha Publicación: 18/09/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés