Spss Survival Manual

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McGraw-Hill Education (UK), May 1, 2013 - Psychology - 354 pages
This bestselling guide, covering up to version 21 of the SPSS software, guides you through the entire research process.
 

Contents

Part One Getting started
1
Designing a study
3
Preparing a codebook
11
Getting to know IBM SPSS
14
Part Two Preparing the data file
25
Creating a data file and entering data
27
Screening and cleaning the data
44
Part Three Preliminary analyses
53
Partial correlation
149
Multiple regression
154
Logistic regression
175
Factor analysis
188
Part Five Statistical techniques to compare groups
211
Nonparametric statistics
221
Ttests
247
Oneway analysis of variance
258

Descriptive statistics
55
Using graphs to describe and explore the data
69
Manipulating the data
87
Checking the reliability of a scale
101
Choosing the right statistic
106
Part Four Statistical techniques to explore relationships among variables
125
Correlation
133
Twoway betweengroups ANOVA
274
Multivariate analysis of variance
293
Analysis of covariance
307
Details of data files
329
Recommended reading
344
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About the author (2013)

Julie Pallant has spent many years helping students overcome statistics phobia. She is currently a research coordinator in the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously she has also worked as an applied statistics lecturer, counselling psychologist, and has taught psychology, statistics and research methods at a number of universities.

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