SPSS: A User-Friendly Approach for Version 22

✍ Scribed by Jeffery E. Aspelmeier, Thomas W. Pierce

• Publisher: Worth Publishers
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Edition: 3
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

SPSS: A User-Friendly Approach for Version 22 is a comprehensive introduction to SPSS which goes beyond providing instructions on the mechanics of conducting data analysis to develop your conceptual and applied understanding of quantitative techniques.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Brief Contents
Contents
About the Authors
Preface
About this Edition
About the User-Friendly Approach
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1 Introduction to SPSS: A User-Friendly Approach
Don’t Panic!
How to Use this Book
Data Analysis as a Decision-Making Process
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 2 Basic Operations
Three Windows
Data Editor
Syntax Files
Output Files
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 3 Finding Sums
Setting Up the Data
Running the Analysis
Reading the Output
Finding ΣX[2], ΣY[2], and Other Complex Summations
Find the Sums and Interpret the Output
More Compute Operators
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 4 Frequency Distributions and Charts
Setting Up the Data
Obtaining Frequency Tables
Obtaining Frequency Charts
Obtaining Charts of Means
Charts of Means for Repeated Measures
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 5 Describing Distributions
Setting Up the Data
Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, and Mode
Measures of Variability: Range, Variance, and Standard Deviation
Measures of Normality: Skewness and Kurtosis
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 6 Compute Statements: Reversing Scores, Combining Scores, and Creating Z-Scores
Setting Up the Data
Reverse Scoring Variables
Generating Multi-Item Scale Scores
Generating Z-Scores
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 7 Comparing Means in SPSS (t-Tests)
A Brief Review of Hypothesis Testing
The Data
Setting Up the Data
One-Sample t-test
Independent-Samples t-Test
Paired-Samples t-Test
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 8 One-Way ANOVA: Means Comparison with Two or More Groups
Setting Up the Data
Running the Analyses
Reading the One-Way ANOVA Output
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 9 Factorial ANOVA
Setting Up the Data
Running the Analysis
Reading the Output for a Two-Way ANOVA
Simple Effects Testing
Summary
Practice Exercises
References
CHAPTER 10 Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance
One-Way Repeated-Measures ANOVA
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 11 Regression and Correlation
Setting Up the Data
Correlation
Simple Linear Regression
Obtaining the Scatterplot
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 12 Multiple Regression
Setting Up the Data
Simultaneous Entry of Two Predictor Variables
Varying the Order of Entry: Hierarchical Multiple Regression
Using Automated Strategies for Selecting Predictor Variables
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 13 Chi-Square
Setting Up the Data
Goodness-of-Fit Chi-Square
Pearson’s Chi-Square
Summary
Practice Exercises
References
CHAPTER 14 Reliability
Setting Up the Data
Test-Retest and Parallel Forms Reliability
Split-Half Reliability
Cronbach’s Alpha
Concluding Comments on the GSR Scale
Summary
Practice Exercises
CHAPTER 15 Factor Analysis
Setting Up the Data
Goals of Factor Analysis
Running a Factor Analysis in SPSS
Reading the SPSS Output for Factor Analysis
Summary
Practice Exercises
INDEX