Introduction to SPSS in psychology
Subtitle: for version 16 and earlier
By: Dennis Howitt, Duncan Cramer.
Contributors: Cramer, Duncan, 1948-
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Pearson/Prentice Hall
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Harlow, England; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9780132051644
Subjects: SPSS for Windows; Psychometrics; Psychometrics -- Computer programs
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to SPSS; title: Basics of SPSS data entry and statistical analysis; title: Descriptive statistics; title: Describing variables : tables and diagrams; title: Describing variables numerically : averages, variation and spread; title: Shapes of distributions of scores; title: Standard deviation : the standard unit of measurement in statistics; title: Relationships between two or more variables : diagrams and tables; title: Correlation coefficients : Pearson's correlation and Spearman's rho; title: Regression : prediction with precision; title: Significance testing and basic inferential tests; title: Standard error; title: The t-test : comparing two samples of correlated/related scores; title: The t-test : comparing two groups of unrelated/uncorrelated scores; title: Confidence intervals; title: Chi-square : differences between samples of frequency data; title: Ranking tests for two groups : non-parametric statistics; title: Ranking tests for three or more groups : non-parametric statistics; title: Analysis of variance; title: The variance ratio test : using the F-ratio to compare two variances; title: Analysis of variance (ANOVA) : introduction to the one-way unrelated or uncorrelated ANOVA; title: Analysis of variance for correlated scores or repeated measures; title: Two-way analysis of variance for unrelated/uncorrelated scores; title: Multiple comparisons in ANOVA; title: Two-way mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA); title: Analysis of covariance (ANCOVA); title: Multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA); title: Discriminant function analysis (for MANOVA); title: More advanced correlational statistics; title: Partial correlation; title: Factor analysis; title: Item reliability and inter-rater agreement; title: Stepwise multiple regression; title: Hierarchical multiple regression; title: Advanced qualitative or nominal techniques; title: Log-linear analysis; title: Multinomial logistic regression; title: Binomial logistic regression; title: Data handling procedures; title: Reading ASCII or text files into the data editor; title: Missing values; title: Recoding values; title: Computing new variables with no values missing; title: Computing new variables with some values missing; title: Selecting cases; title: Samples and populations : generating a random sample; title: Inputting a correlation matrix; title: Checking the accuracy of data input.