SPSS for psychologists : a guide to data analysis using SPSS for Windows (versions 12 and 13) / Nicola Brace, Richard Kemp and Rosemary Snelgar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brace, Nicola.

Contributor:

Kemp, Richard, 1960 October 12-

Snelgar, Rosemary.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

SPSS for Windows.

Psychometrics--Data processing.

Psychometrics.

Psychology--Statistical methods.

Psychology.

Physical Description:

xvi, 450 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Mahwah : Lawrence Erlbaum, 2006.

Contents:

1 Psychological research and SPSS 2

2 Some basic statistical concepts 4

3 Working with SPSS 18

4 Starting SPSS 20

5 How to exit from SPSS 24

6 Some useful option settings in SPSS 25

Chapter 2 Data entry in SPSS 27

1 The Data Editor window 28

2 Defining a variable in SPSS 30

3 Entering data 42

4 Saving a data file 45

5 Opening a data file 48

6 Data entry exercises 50

7 Answers to data entry exercises 54

8 Summary descriptive statistics and the Viewer window 56

Chapter 3 Tests of difference for two sample designs 69

1 An introduction to the t-test 70

2 The independent t-test 71

3 The paired t-test 79

4 An introduction to the nonparametric equivalents of the t-test 85

5 The Mann-Whitney test 86

6 The Wilcoxon test 89

Chapter 4 Tests of correlation 93

1 An introduction to tests of correlation 94

2 Descriptive statistics in correlation 95

3 Pearson's r: parametric test of correlation 102

4 Spearman's rs: nonparametric test of correlation 106

Chapter 5 Tests for nominal data 109

1 Nominal data and dichotomous variables 110

2 Chi-square tests versus the chi-square distribution 112

3 The goodness-of-fit chi-square 113

4 The multi-dimensional chi-square 114

5 The McNemar test for repeated measures 127

Chapter 6 Data handling 131

1 An introduction to data handling 132

2 Sorting a file 133

3 Splitting a file 135

4 Selecting cases 137

5 Recoding values 141

6 Computing new variables 146

7 Counting values 149

8 Ranking cases 152

9 Other useful functions 155

10 Data file for scales or questionnaires 157

Chapter 7 Analysis of variance 161

1 An introduction to analysis of variance (ANOVA) 162

2 One-way between-subjects ANOVA 175

3 Two-way between-subjects ANOVA 182

4 One-way within-subjects ANOVA 188

5 Two-way within-subjects ANOVA 194

6 Mixed ANOVA 204

7 Some additional points 210

8 Planned and unplanned comparisons 213

9 Nonparametric equivalents to ANOVA: Kruskal-Wallis and Friedman 221

Chapter 8 Multiple regression 227

1 An introduction to multiple regression 228

2 Performing a multiple regression on SPSS 235

Chapter 9 Analysis of covariance and multivariate analysis of variance 245

1 An introduction to analysis of covariance 246

2 Performing analysis of covariance on SPSS 250

3 An introduction to multivariate analysis of variance 263

4 Performing multivariate analysis of variance on SPSS 267

Chapter 10 Discriminant analysis and logistic regression 273

1 Discriminant analysis and logistic regression 274

2 An introduction to discriminant analysis 276

3 Performing discriminant analysis on SPSS 280

4 An introduction to logistic regression 293

5 Performing logistic regression on SPSS 294

Chapter 11 Factor analysis, and reliability and dimensionality of scales 301

1 An introduction to factor analysis 302

2 Performing a basic factor analysis on SPSS 313

3 Other aspects of factor analysis 326

4 Reliability analysis for scales and questionnaires 331

5 Dimensionality of scales and questionnaires 337

Chapter 12 Beyond the basics 341

1 The syntax window 342

2 Option settings in SPSS 350

3 Getting help in SPSS 352

4 Printing from SPSS 355

5 Incorporating SPSS output into other documents 358

6 Graphing tips 359

7 Interactive charts 365

Appendix I Data files 391

Appendix II Defining a variable in SPSS versions 8 and 9 423

Appendix III Adding regression lines to scattergrams before Version 12 433

1 Simple scattergram (Chapter 4, Section 2) 434

2 Scattergram with multiple groups (Chapter 9, Section 2) 438.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0805860851

OCLC:

70690747