SPSS for Windows step by step : a simple guide and reference, 10.0 update / Darren George, Paul Mallery.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

George, Darren.

Contributor:

Mallery, Paul, 1966-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

SPSS for Windows.

Social sciences--Statistical methods--Computer programs.

Social sciences.

Physical Description:

vii, 371 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Allyn and Bacon, [2001]

Contents:

2. SPSS Windows Processes: Mouse and keyboard processing, frequently-used dialog boxes, editing output, printing results 9

3. Creating and Editing a Data File 27

4. Managing Data: Listing cases, replacing missing values, computing new variables, recoding variables, exploring data, selecting cases, sorting cases, merging files 41

5. Graphs: Creating and editing graphs and charts 65

Base System Module

6. Frequencies: Frequencies, bar charts, histograms, percentiles 73

7. Descriptive Statistics: Measures of central tendency, variability, deviation from normality, size, and stability 83

8. Crosstabulation and Chi-Square (x[superscript 2]) Analyses 93

9. The Means Procedure 103

10. Bivariate Correlation: Bivariate correlations, partial correlations, and the correlation matrix 111

11. The T Test Procedure: Independent-samples, paired-samples, and one-sample tests 121

12. The One-Way Anova Procedure: One-way Analysis of Variance 131

13. General Linear Models: Two-Way Analysis of Variance 141

14. General Linear Models: Three-Way Analysis of Variance and the influence of covariates 149

15. Simple Linear Regression 165

16. Multiple Regression Analysis 179

17. Nonparametric Procedures 193

18. Reliability Analysis: Coefficient alpha ([alpha]) and split-half reliability 207

19. Multidimensional Scaling 219

20. Factor Analysis 231

21. Cluster Analysis 247

22. Discriminant Analysis 263

Advanced and Regression Modules

23. General Linear Models: Manova and Mancova Multivariate Analysis of Variance and Covariance 279

24. General Linear Models: Repeated-Measures Manova: Multivariate Analysis of Variance with repeated measures and within-subjects factors 293

25. Logistic Regression 305

26. Hierarchical Loglinear Models 317

27. General Loglinear Models 331

28. Residuals: Analyzing left-over variance 341.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [364]-365) and index.

ISBN:

0205331270

OCLC:

45427763