Using SPSS for social statistics and research methods
By: William E. Wagner, III.
Publisher: Pine Forge Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: SPSS for Windows.; Social sciences -- Statistical methods.
Table of contents: title: Overview; title: Opening existing data files; title: Importing data from non-SPSS file formats; title: Opening previously created output files; title: Saving files; title: Creating new SPSS data files; title: Creating and editing SPSS output files; title: Preferences: getting started; title: Measurement of variables using SPSS; title: Transforming variables; title: Recoding variables; title: Computing variables; title: Using the count function; title: Computing an index using mean; title: Multiple response; title: Organization and presentation of information; title: Measures of central tendency and variability; title: Frequency distributions; title: Charts and graphs; title: Boxplot; title: Scatterplot; title: Histogram; title: Bar graph; title: Pie chart; title: Alternate methods of creating charts and graphs; title: Cross-tabulation and measures of association for nominal and ordinal variables; title: Bivariate analysis; title: Adding another variable or dimension to the analysis; title: Measures of association for nominal and ordinal variables; title: Lambda; title: Gamma and somers' d; title: Correlate and regression analysis; title: Bivariate regression; title: Correlation; title: Multiple regression; title: Selecting and sampling cases; title: Targeted selection; title: Random selection; title: Selecting cases for inclusion in a new data set; title: Testing hypotheses using means and cross-tabulation; title: Comparing means; title: Comparing means: paired-samples T test; title: Comparing means: independent-samples T test; title: Chi-square; title: Analysis of variance; title: Way Anova; title: Anova in regression; title: Editing output; title: Editing basic tables; title: Copying to Microsoft Word; title: Exporting output; title: Editing charts and graphs; title: Advanced applications; title: Merging data from multiple files; title: Opening previously created syntax files; title: Creating new SPSS syntax files.