SPSS Statistics Workbook For Dummies - Softcover

Salcedo, Jesus; McCormick, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1394156308 ISBN 13: 9781394156306

Publisher: For Dummies, 2023

Synopsis

Practice making sense of data with IBM’s SPSS Statistics software

SPSS Statistics Workbook For Dummies gives you the practice you need to navigate the leading statistical software suite. Data management and analysis, advanced analytics, business intelligence―SPSS is a powerhouse of a research platform, and this book helps you master the fundamentals and analyze data more effectively. You’ll work through practice problems that help you understand the calculations you need to perform, complete predictive analyses, and produce informative graphs. This workbook gives you hands-on exercises to hone your statistical analysis skills with SPSS Statistics 28. Plus, explanations and insider tips help you navigate the software with ease. Practical and easy-to-understand, in classic Dummies style.

• Practice organizing, analyzing, and graphing data
• Learn to write, edit, and format SPSS syntax
• Explore the upgrades and features new to SPSS 28
• Try your hand at advanced data analysis procedures

For academics using SPSS for research, business analysts and market researchers looking to extract valuable insights from data, and anyone with a hankering for more stats practice.

About this title

About the Author

Jesus Salcedo, PhD, studied psychometrics at Fordham and has been using SPSS for over 25 years. Currently at Wiley, he served as the SPSS curriculum lead at IBM and has trained thousands of users.

Keith McCormick has traveled the world speaking at conferences teaching machine learning, data science, and SPSS. He currently serves as executive data scientist in residence at Pandata. Hundreds of thousands have watched his LinkedIn Learning courses.

From the Back Cover

Practice your way to number-crunching perfection

To unleash the power of SPSS^® Statistics, you need to practice. SPSS Statistics Workbook For Dummies is full of clear explanations and practice problems to help you master the software’s many capabilities. Each example provides step-by-step solutions for analysis and interpretation, with topics that are most important for your day-do-day work, university coursework, and even preparation for IBM certification. With this clear Dummies resource, you can go from complete beginner to super-user, the easy way.

Inside…

• Navigating the interface
• Getting data into and out of SPSS
• Cleaning up your dataset
• Calculating descriptive statistics
• Performing t-tests and ANOVAs
• Correlation and regression
• Creating and editing charts
• Common mistakes to avoid

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1394156308
• ISBN 13: 9781394156306
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336