Easy Use and Interpretation of SPSS 7.5 for Windows : Answering Research Question with Statistics

by Morgan, George A.; Griego, Orlando V.

• ISBN13: 9780805829594
• ISBN10: 0805829598
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: LEA, Inc.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. iii
Research Problems, Approaches, and Questions	p. 1
Overview of the High School and Beyond (hsb) Data Set and Spss 7.5	p. 16
Measurement and Descriptive Statistics	p. 25
Data Entry, Checking Data, and Descriptive Statistics	p. 32
More Descriptive Statistics and Checking the Normal Distribution	p. 49
Data Transformations: Count, Recode, Compute	p. 65
Selecting and Interpreting Inferential Statistics	p. 77
Cross-Tabulation and Nonparametric Association	p. 89
Correlation and Scatterplots	p. 97
Factor Analysis: Data Reduction with Principal Components Analysis	p. 111
Several Measures of Reliability	p. 125
Multiple Regression	p. 139
Logistic Regression and Discriminant Analysis	p. 154
Independent and Paired Samples T Tests and Equivalent Nonparametric Tests	p. 172
One-Way Anova with Multiple Comparisons for Between Groups Designs	p. 186
Factorial Anova, Including Interactions, and Ancova	p. 199
Repeated Measures and Mixed Anovas	p. 215
Multivariate Analysis of Variance (manova)	p. 227
Writing Research Problems and Questions	p. 236
Select Cases: Analyzing Parts of a Sample	p. 240
the Hsb Codebook and How to Develop It	p. 250
Answers to Interpretation Questions	p. 258
Bibliography	p. 269
Index	p. 271
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