Overview

SPSS QuickStart  is a guide to the skills that behavioral and social science researchers, educational and business analysts, and others use to conduct statistical analyses. It focuses on the SPSS procedures and techniques that these individuals are likely to apply to analyze their data.

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Author:   Neil J. Salkind ,  Samuel Green
Publisher:   Pearson Education (US)
Imprint:   Pearson
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   0.350kg
ISBN:  

9780205735778

ISBN 10:   0205735770
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   12 August 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

How To Use This Book   Part I:SPSS/PASW Basics   QuickStart 1 Starting SPSS/PASW  QuickStart 2 SPSS/PASW  Main Menu and Toolbars  QuickStart 3 Using SPSS/PASW Help    Part II: Creating an SPSS/PASW Data File   QuickStart 4 Opening and Saving an SPSS/PASW Data File QuickStart 5 Defining Variable Properties  QuickStart 6 Entering and Editing Data QuickStart 7 Inserting and Deleting Cases and Variables  QuickStart 8 Selecting Parts of a Data Set for Deleting or Pasting QuickStart 9 Printing an SPSS/PASW Data File and Exiting SPSS/PASW   Part III: Working with an SPSS/PASW Data File   QuickStart 10 Importing and Exporting Data QuickStart 11 Finding Values, Variables, and Cases  QuickStart 12 Transforming Data—Recoding, Computing, and Ranking Cases QuickStart 13 Selecting and Splitting files QuickStart 14 Sorting Cases and Merging Files    Part IV: Creating and Editing SPSS/PASW Graphs and Tables   QuickStart 15 Creating  Graphs QuickStart 16 Modifying Graphs  QuickStart 17 Creating Tables QuickStart 18 Using Viewer    Part V: Descriptive Statistics   QuickStart 19 Descriptive Statistics for Qualitative Variables  QuickStart 20 Descriptive Statistics for Quantitative Variables      Part VI: Evaluating Means   QuickStart 21 One-Sample t Test    QuickStart 22 Paired-Samples t Test    QuickStart 23 Independent-Samples t Test    QuickStart 24 One-Way Analysis of Variance  QuickStart 25 One-Way Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance  QuickStart 26 Two-Way Analysis of Variance    Part VII: Correlation and Regression   QuickStart 27 Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient    QuickStart 28 Partial Correlation    QuickStart 29 Bivariate Linear Regression    QuickStart 30 Multiple Linear Regression     Part VIII: Discriminant, Factor and Reliability Analysis   QuickStart 31 Discriminant Analysis    QuickStart 32 Factor Analysis QuickStart 33 Internal Consistency Estimates of Reliability      Part IX: Nonparametric Statistics   QuickStart 34 Binomial Test QuickStart 35 One Sample Chi-Square Goodness of Fit QuickStart 36 Mann Whitney U Test for Two Independent Samples QuickStart 37  Wilcoxon Test for Two Related Samples   Appendix 1 - Creating APA Format Charts  

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Neil J. Salkind is a professor emeritus of educational psychology at the University of Kansas where he taught for 35 years. He received his degree from the University of Maryland's Institute for Child Study and has published numerous journal articles and books, among them being Using SPSS with Sam Green (Prentice Hall), Exploring Research (Prentice Hall) and Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics (Sage). He is active in the Society for Research in Child Development where he edited the journal Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography, and the American Psychological Association. He lives in Lawrence, KS.

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