Data Analysis for the Behavioral Sciences Using Spss

by Sharon Lawner Weinberg , Sarah Knapp Abramowitz

• ISBN13: 9780521635615
• ISBN10: 0521635616
• Format: Multimedia
• Copyright: 2002-04-15
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This text is written from the perspective that statistics is an integrated set of tools used together to uncover the story contained in numerical data. Accordingly, the text comes with a disk containing a series of real data sets to motivate discussions of appropriate methods of analysis. The presentation is informal, yet rigorous; it is based on a conceptual approach supported by an understanding of underlying mathematical foundations. Students learn that more than one method of analysis is typically needed and that an ample characterization of results is a critical component of any data analytic plan. The use of real data and SPSS to perform computations and create graphical summaries not only enables a greater emphasis on conceptual understanding and interpretation, but also allows students to study statistics in a way that reflects statistical practice.

Author Biography

Sharon Lawner Weinberg is Professor of Quantitative Methods and Psychology and Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at New York University.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

2. Examining univariate distributions

3. Measures of location, spread, and skewness

4. Re-expressing variables

5. Exploring relationships between two variables

6. Simple linear regression

7. Probability fundamentals

8. Theoretical probability models

9. The role of sampling in inferential statistics

10. Inferences involving the mean of a single population when o is known

11. Inferences involving the mean when o is not known: one and two sample designs

12. One-way analysis of variance

13. Two-way analysis of variance

14. Correlation and simple regression as inferential techniques

15. An introduction to multiple regression

16. Nonparametric methods

Appendix A. Data set descriptions

Appendix B. SPSS macro to generate a sampling distrubution of means

Appendix C. Statistical tables

Appendix D. References

Appendix E. Solutions to exercises.