A Visual Approach to SPSS for Windows A Guide to SPSS 17.0

by Stern, Leonard D

• ISBN13: 9780205706051
• ISBN10: 0205706053
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-02-20
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

SPSS is, essentially, a visually-driven program, but most texts rely primarily on a verbal approach to describe its use. A Visual Approach to SPSS for Windowsis the first text of its kind to employ what the author refers to as "visual sequencing" to teach students how to use SPSS. The Basics; Entering and Saving Data; Modifying Data in the Data Editor; Defining Variablesrs" Properties; TheSPSS StatisticsViewer; Graphing Data with theChart Builder; Data Transformation and Case Selection; TheFrequenciesProcedure; Other Procedures for Obtaining Descriptive Measures; Bivariate Correlation and Regression; Multiple Regression and Correlation; Chi-Square Tests of Independence and Goodness-of-Fit; One and Two Sample T-Tests; One-Way Analysis of Variance; Two-Way and Higher Order Analyses of Variance; Within-Subjects ANOVAS Nonparametric or Distribution Free Tests; Exploratory Factor Analysis; Discriminant Analysis.Any interested in learning to use SPSS.

Author Biography

Leonard Stern teaches courses in statistics, research methods, and human memory in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Washington Unversity. He received a B.A. in chemistry from Colby College, an M.A. from the University of Oregon in interdisciplinary studies, and an M. A. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Oregon. He is the author of a text book on memory and one describing use of a software package to perform psychology experiments using computers. One of his current areas of interest is circumstances under which false memory occurs.

Table of Contents

Preface

The Basics

Entering and Saving Data

Modifying Data in the Data Editor

Defining Variablesrsquo; Properties

TheSPSS StatisticsViewer

Graphing Data with theChart Builder

Data Transformation and Case Selection

TheFrequenciesProcedure

Other Procedures for Obtaining Descriptive Measures

Bivariate Correlation and Regression

Multiple Regression and Correlation

Chi-Square Tests of Independence and Goodness-of-Fit

One and Two Sample T-Tests

One-Way Analysis of Variance

Two-Way and Higher Order Analyses of Variance

Within-Subjects ANOVAS

Nonparametric or Distribution Free Tests

Exploratory Factor Analysis

Discriminant Analysis

Using theChart Editorto Insert a Reference Line and Data Labels

Using theChart Editorto Add a Title to the X-Axis

UsingCodebookto Obtain an Overview of the Variables in a Data File

References

Index

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