Doing Statistics With SPSS

✍ Scribed by Mr Alistair W Kerr, Professor Howard K Hall, Dr Stephen A Kozub

• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Doing Statistics with SPSS assumes no prior understanding beyond that of basic mathematical operations and is therefore suitable for anyone undertaking an introductory statistics course as part of a science based undergraduate programme. The text will: enable the reader to make informed choices about what statistical tests to employ and what assumptions are made in using a particular test demonstrate how to execute the analysis using SPSS guide the interpretation of its output Each chapter ends with an exercise and provides detailed instructions on how to run the analysis using SPSS release 10. Learning is further guided by pointing the reader to particular aspects of the SPSS output and by having the reader engage with specified items of information from the SPSS results.

✦ Table of Contents

COVER
......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 6
1 THE NEED FOR STATISTICS
......Page 10
2 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS......Page 18
3 THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION
......Page 38
4 INTRODUCTION TO EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH
......Page 49
5 SAMPLING ERROR......Page 67
6 BETWEEN-GROUPS ONE-WAY ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE
......Page 88
7 ANALYTICAL COMPARISONS
......Page 108
8 WITHIN-GRUPS ONE-WAY ANOVA
......Page 123
9 FACTORIAL ANOVA
......Page 138
10 MORE ADVANCED APPLICATIONS IN ANOVA
......Page 153
11 LINEAR REGRESSION
......Page 172
12 MULTIPLE REGRESSION
......Page 188
13 TWO FINAL EXERCISES
......Page 207
APPENDIX
......Page 214
INDEX......Page 242