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Applied Statistics with SPSS



February 2007 | 368 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Accessibly written and easy to use, Applied Statistics Using SPSS is an all-in-one self-study guide to SPSS and do-it-yourself guide to statistics. Based around the needs of undergraduate students embarking on their own research project, the text's self-help style is designed to boost the skills and confidence of those that will need to use SPSS in the course of doing their research project.

The book is pedagogically well developed and contains many screen dumps and exercises, glossary terms and worked examples. Divided into two parts, Applied Statistics Using SPSS covers :

1. A self-study guide for learning how to use SPSS.

2. A reference guide for selecting the appropriate statistical technique and a stepwise do-it-yourself guide for analysing data and interpreting the results.

3. Readers of the book can download the SPSS data file that is used for most of the examples throughout the book.

Geared explicitly for undergraduate needs, this is an easy to follow SPSS book that should provide a step-by-step guide to research design and data analysis using SPSS.

 
PART ONE: LEARNING TO WORK WITH SPSS
 
Background to SPSS for Windows
 
The Use of SPSS in Statistical Research
 
From Data Source to Data File
 
Session 1
The First Steps

 
 
Session 2
Charts and Computations

 
 
Session 3
Performing Statistical Analyses

 
 
PART TWO: WORKING WITH SPSS AND DATA ENTRY
 
Designing and Conducting Questionnaires with Data Entry
 
Creating a Data File
 
Computation and Classification of Variables
 
Selecting, Sorting and Weighting Cases
 
Merging, Aggregating and Transposing Data Files
 
Describing Your Data
 
Charts
 
Crosstables
 
Analyzing Multiple Responses
 
Describing Groups and Testing the Differences
 
Analysis of Variance
 
Correlation and Regression
 
Non-parametric Tests
 
Customising SPSS

Lacks the statistical theory other books do provide.

Dr Dick Heinhuis
Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam
February 20, 2015

I don't think this book is engaging enough for students, and I have found better alternatives.

Dr Sara Johnson
Psychology, George Williams College
October 22, 2012

i didnt recieve it till now

Dr Ibrahim Alsahouly
Business Administration , Misr International University
July 25, 2012

Still prefer Salkind's statistics book for overall simplicity and integration with SPSS. However, this is a very good supplemental text.

Dr Valerie Herzog
Health Promo Human Perf Dept, Weber State University
September 12, 2011

The book is really pedagogical and great way of introducing my students to the basic SPSS methods analysis.

In my opinion, it will be needed more examples, I mean, making more exercices with different data for each specific statistical test learned.
The rest, great.

Professor Jose-luis Hervas-oliver
Management , Polythecnic University of Valencia
February 17, 2011

Applied Statistics with SPSS is a well written text which we recommend as an entry level book for anyone doing quantitative project work using SPSS. This book has been well received by honours and masters students undertaking dissertation work which have a statistical element. Of particular significance was Part II (7) ‘Working with SPSS and Data Entry’ which many students reported as being the most important section of the book as it describes designing and conducting questionnaires with data entry. Other parts of the book which were very useful were (11) ‘Merging, aggregating and transposing data files’; and (12) Describing your data. Other sections of this book were found to be helpful, but sections 7, 11, and 12 were reported to be the most used parts of the book by students, as other books could not be found which covered the area as comprehensively as Huizingh.

Mr Gary McKenna
School of Computing, University of the West of Scotland
November 5, 2010

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