Data Analysis Using SPSS for Windows - Version 6: A Beginner′s Guide - Hardcover

Foster, Jeremy J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0761960155 ISBN 13: 9780761960157

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

SPSS for Windows is the most widely used computer package for analyzing quantitative data. In a clear, readable, non-technical style, this book teaches beginners how to use the program, input and manipulate data, use descriptive analyses and inferential techniques, including: t-tests, analysis of variance, correlation and regression, nonparametric techniques, and reliability analysis and factor analysis.

The author provides an overview of statistical analysis, and then shows in a simple step-by-step method how to set up an SPSS file in order to run an analysis as well as how to graph and display data. He explains how to use SPSS for all the main statistical approaches you would expect to find in an introductory statistics course.

The book is written for users of Versions 6 and 6.1, but will be equally valuable to users of later versions.

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Review

`In terms of content and style this is very much an undergraduate text. I am impressed by the clarity of writing and explanation and I see no reason why this book will not be accessible to any student who uses SPSS' - Andy Field, Royal Holloway, University of London

` This book is meant to teach beginners the operation of SPSS for windows. The language is lucid. One's questions on the data are answered, the commands are explained and the outputs shown....I was marvelled when I finished reading the text' - Psychology in Africa

About the Author

Dr Jeremy Foster is Principal Lecturer in the Department of Psychology and Speech Therapy at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0761960155
• ISBN 13: 9780761960157
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224