ISBN 10: 0137291973 ISBN 13: 9780137291977

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 1997

This Book is a practical guide to SPSS for Windows when analysing psychological and similar data. It si based on the latest version of SPSS for Windows (Release 6 for Windows Version 3.1 and Release 7 for Windows 95. This uncomplicated manual expertly leads the student through the use of SPSS software in windows format, starting with the very basic How to access SPSS for Windows, to dealing with and manipulating statistical analyses using hierachical and multiple regressions.A Guide to Computing can be used as a stand-alone guide to SPSS for Windows. However, it draws on the examples of research described and explained in An Introduction to Statistics in Psychology (Howitt and Cramer, 1977), an introductory but extended textbook on psychological statistics.

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Learn all you need to know about statistics - and how to generate the statistics you need with the field's leading software package, SPSS for Windows. The book also contains detailed, practical coverage of variables, tables and diagrams, averages, variation and spread, distributions of scores and standard deviation. Coverage also includes: correlation coefficients, prediction, sampling, regression, statistical significance, inference, T-tests, chi-squares, non-parametric statistics, analysis of variance, partial and spurious correlation, multiple regression, and more. There is also a detailed case study walking through the analysis of a questionnaire and survey project.For anyone who needs to understand and work with statistics.