SPSS Statistics For Dummies

✍ Scribed by Keith McCormick; Jesus Salcedo; (Consultant) Keith McCormick; ;

• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 483
• Series: For dummies
• Edition: 4
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Book
About the Fourth Edition
Foolish Assumptions
Icons Used in This Book
Beyond the Book
Where to Go from Here
Part 1 Getting Started with SPSS
Chapter 1 Introducing SPSS
SPSS’s Job, Our Job, and Your Job
SPSS’s job
Our job
Your job
Garbage In, Garbage Out: Recognizing the Importance of Good Data
Talking to SPSS: Can You Hear Me Now?
The graphical user interface
Syntax
Programmability
How SPSS works
Getting Help When You Need It
Chapter 2 Finding the Best SPSS for You
Campus Editions
Subscription Plans
Commercial Editions
What’s New in Version 27
Chapter 3 Getting to Know SPSS by Running a Simple Session
Opening a Dataset
Running an Analysis
Interpreting Results
Creating Graphs
Investigating Data
Part 2 Getting Data into and out of SPSS
Chapter 4 Understanding SPSS Data: Defining Metadata
Entering Variable Definitions on the Variable View Tab
Name
Type
Width
Decimals
Label
Values
Missing
Columns
Align
Measure
Role
Entering and Viewing Data Items on the Data View Tab
Chapter 5 Opening Data Files
Getting Acquainted with the SPSS File Format
Reading Simple Data from a Text File
Transferring Data from Another Program
Reading an Excel file
Reading from an unknown program type
Saving Data
Chapter 6 Getting Data and Results from SPSS
Exporting Data to Another Program
Navigating SPSS Statistics Viewer
Moving SPSS Output to Other Applications
Copying and pasting output
Exporting output
Printing Data
Chapter 7 More about Defining Your Data
Working with Dates and Times
Using the Date and Time Wizard
Creating and Using a Multiple-Response Set
Copying Data Properties
Part 3 Messing with Data in SPSS
Chapter 8 The Transform and Data Menus
Sorting Cases
Selecting the Data You Want to Look At
Splitting Data for Easier Analysis
Counting Case Occurrences
Recoding Variables
Recoding into different variables
Automatic recoding
Binning
Optimal Binning
Chapter 9 Computing New Variables
Calculating a New Variable with a Formula
Calculating a New Variable with a Condition
Using System Variables
Contrasting $Sysmis with SYSMIS
Understanding Missing Data in Formulas
Efficiently Calculating with Multiple Formulas
Chapter 10 Some Useful Functions
The LENGTH Function
The ANY Function
The MEAN Function and Missing Data
RND, TRUNC, and MOD
Logicals, the MISSING Function, and the NOT Function
String Parsing and Nesting Functions
Calculating Lags
Chapter 11 Combining Files
Merging Files by Adding Cases
Merging Files by Adding Variables
Part 4 Graphing Data
Chapter 12 On the Menu: Graphing Choices in SPSS
Building Graphs the Chart Builder Way
The Gallery tab
The Basic Elements tab
The Groups/Point ID tab
The Titles/Footnotes tab
The Element Properties tab
The Chart Appearance tab
The Options tab
Building Graphs with Graphboard Template Chooser
Chapter 13 Building Graphs Using Chart Builder
Simple Graphs
Simple scatterplots
Simple dot plots
Simple bar graphs
Simple error bars
Simple histograms
Population pyramids
Stacked area charts
Fancy Graphs
Charts with multiple lines
Colored scatterplots
Scatterplot matrices
Stacked bar charts
Pie charts
Clustered range bar graphs
Differenced area graphs
Dual-axis graph
Fancy Maps Using Graphboard Template Chooser
Heat map
Choropleth of values
Coordinates on a reference map
Part 5 Analyzing Data
Chapter 14 Using Descriptive Statistics
Looking at Levels of Measurement
Defining the four levels of measurement
Defining summary statistics
Focusing on Frequencies for Categorical Variables
Understanding Frequencies for Continuous Variables
Summarizing Continuous Variables with the Descriptives Procedure
Chapter 15 Knowing When Not to Trust Your Data
Sampling
Understanding Sample Size
Testing Hypotheses
Calculating Confidence Intervals
Conducting In-Depth Hypothesis Testing
Using the Normal Distribution
Working with Z-Scores
Chapter 16 Testing One Group
Conducting Inferential Tests
Running the Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Test
Running the One-Sample T-Test Procedure
Chapter 17 Showing Relationships between Categorical Variables
Running the Crosstabs Procedure
Running the Chi-Square Test of Independence
Comparing Column Proportions
Adding Control Variables
Creating a Clustered Bar Chart
Chapter 18 Showing Relationships between Continuous Dependent and Categorical Independent Variables
Conducting Inferential Tests
Using the Compare Means Dialog
Running the Independent-Samples T-Test Procedure
Comparing the Means Graphically
Running the Summary Independent-Samples T-Test Procedure
Running the Paired-Samples T-Test Procedure
Chapter 19 Showing Relationships between Continuous Variables
Viewing Relationships
Running the Bivariate Procedure
Running the Simple Linear Regression Procedure
Part 6 Getting More Advanced with Analyzing Data
Chapter 20 Doing More Advanced Analyses
Running the One-Way ANOVA Procedure
Conducting Post Hoc Tests
Comparing Means Graphically
Running the Multiple Linear Regression Procedure
Viewing Relationships
Chapter 21 What Is Normal Anyway?
Understanding Nonparametric Tests
Understanding Distributions
Running a Nonparametric Independent Samples Test
Running a Nonparametric Related Samples Test
Chapter 22 When to Do What
Determining Which Statistical Test to Perform
Using Advanced Techniques
Part 7 Making SPSS Your Own
Chapter 23 Changing Settings
General Options
Language Options
Viewer Options
Data Options
Currency Options
Output Options
Chart Options
Pivot Tables Options
File Locations Options
Scripts Options
Multiple Imputations Options
Syntax Editor Options
Privacy Options
Chapter 24 Editing Charts and Chart Templates
Changing and Editing Axes
Changing the axis range
Scaling the axis range
Changing Style: Lines and Symbols
Editing chart lines
Editing data points
Applying Templates
Chapter 25 Editing Tables
Working with TableLooks
Style Output
Pivoting Trays
Part 8 Programming SPSS with Command Syntax
Chapter 26 Getting Acquainted with Syntax
Pasting
Performing a Series of Related Compute Statements
Labeling
Repeatedly Generating the Same Report
Chapter 27 Adding Syntax to Your Toolkit
Your Wish Is My Command
Understanding Keywords
Declaring Data
Commenting Your Way to Clarity
Running Your Code
Controlling Flow and Executing Conditionals
IF
DO IF
SELECT IF
Part 9 The Part of Tens
Chapter 28 Ten (or So) Modules You Can Add to SPSS
The Advanced Statistics Module
The Custom Tables Module
The Regression Module
The Categories Module
The Data Preparation Module
The Decision Trees Module
The Forecasting Module
The Missing Values Module
The Bootstrapping Module
The Complex Samples Module
The Conjoint Module
The Direct Marketing Module
The Exact Tests Module
The Neural Networks Module
Chapter 29 Ten Useful SPSS Resources
Supporting Websites for This Book
LinkedIn and LinkedIn Groups
IBM SPSS Statistics Certification
IBM Data Science Community
SPSSX-L
Online Videos
Twitter
Live Instruction
Asynchronous Instruction and Tutorials
SPSS Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization
Chapter 30 Ten SPSS Statistics Gotchas
Failing to Declare Level of Measurement
Conflating String Values with Labels
Failing to Declare Missing Data
Failing to Find Add-On Modules and Plug-Ins
Failing to Meet Statistical and Software Assumptions
Confusing Pasting Syntax with Copy and Paste
Thinking You Create Variables in SPSS as You Do in Excel
Getting Confused by Listwise Deletion
Losing Track of Your Active Dataset
Forgetting to Turn Off Select and Split and Weight
Index
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