SPSS for dummies
By: by Arthur Griffith
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: --For dummies; --For dummies
Publisher: John Wiley
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J; Chichester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780470487648
Subjects: Statistical methods; SPSS (Computer file); PASW (Computer file); Social sciences; Computer programs
Description: Need to analyze some data? SPSS is your statistical friend-- let it crunch the numbers!
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. The fundamental mechanics of SPSS. Introducing IBM SPSS statistics ; Installing software and setting options ; A simple statistical analysis example; title: pt. II. Getting data in and out of SPSS. Entering data from the keyboard ; Reading and writing files ; Data and data types ; Messing with the data after it's in there ; Getting data out of SPSS; title: pt. III. Graphing data. Fundamentals of graphing ; Some types of graphs ; More types of graphs; title: pt. IV. Analysis. Executing an analysis ; Some analysis examples; title: pt. V. Programming SPSS with command syntax. The command syntax language ; Command syntax language example; title: pt. VI. Programming SPSS with Python and Scripts. the Python programming language ; Python inside SPSS ; Scripts; title: pt. VII. The part of tens. Ten (or so) modules you can add to SPSS ; Ten useful SPSS things you can find on the Internet.