IBM SPSS for Introductory Statistics: Use and Interpretation, Fifth Edition
"This book is an excellent resource for both students and faculty. It provides an up to date, step by step guide outlining which statistical analysis to use, how to run specific tests in SPSS, and most important how to interpret and report the results.” -Randall Davies, Brigham Young University, USA“This textbook not only provides a comprehensive overview of how to use SPSS to calculate inferential statistics, but it also provides illustrative tutorials on how to read and interpret the outputs generated by the software.” –Janelle L. Gagnon, Mount Holyoke College, USA"This is not your usual SPSS guidebook! The text guides the reader through the research process from research question, to choice of appropriate statistics, to running SPSS, to interpretation of the SPSS output, and finally to writing up results. It should be very useful to applied researchers." -Richard Lomax, The Ohio State University, USA“This clearly written and effectively illustrated book allows statistics instructors to concentrate on facilitating students’ conceptual understanding and problem solving skills. This book excels in helping students informatively distinguish among and select appropriate analyses, and interpret the oft times voluminous results of those analyses.” –Michael F. Cassidy, Marymount University, USA"Through detailed examples, clear and precise terminology, and raising awareness of potential pitfalls, this book guides students through the basic questions, assumptions, and choices for statistically informed research. Teachers and students alike will find that this book is much more than a manual on how-to-do basic statistical analysis using SPSS but an exploration on the task and goals of research."-Elias Ortega-Aponte, Drew University, USA