02306pamaa2200193 4500 0000043764 20130626090000.0 080528 eng 141294077x (pbk.) HA32 WAG 2007 Wagner III Using SPSS for social statistics and research methods William E. Wagner, III. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Pine Forge Press, 2007. ix,101 p.: ill; 23 cm. Library Overview -- Opening existing data files Importing data from non-SPSS file formats -- Opening previously created output files -- Saving files -- Creating new SPSS data files -- Creating and editing SPSS output files -- Preferences: getting started -- Measurement of variables using SPSS -- Transforming variables -- Recoding and computing variables --Recoding variables -- Computing variables -- Using the count function -- Computing an index using mean -- Multiple response -- Organization and presentation of information -- Measures of central tendency and variability -- Frequency distributions -- Charts and graphs -- Boxplot -- Scatterplot -- Histogram -- Bar graph -- Pie chart -- Alternate methods of creating charts and graphs -- Cross-tabulation and measures of association for nominal and ordinal variables -- Bivariate analysis -- Adding another variable or dimension to the analysis -- Measures of association for nominal and ordinal variables -- Lambda -- Gamma and Somers' d -- Correlate and regression analysis --Bivariate regression -- Correlation -- Multiple regression -- Selecting and sampling cases -- Targeted selection -- Random selection -- Selecting cases for inclusion in a new dataset -- Testing hypotheses using means and cross-tabulation -- Comparing means -- Comparing means: paired-samples t-test -- Comparing means: independent-samples t-test -- Chi-square --Analysis of variance -- One-way Anova -- Anova in regression-- Editing output -- Editing basic tables -- Copying toMicrosoft Word -- Exporting output -- Editing charts andgraphs -- Advanced applications -- Merging data from multiplefiles -- Opening previously created syntax files -- Creating new SPSS syntax files Social sciences -- Statistical methods SPSS for Windows www.pineforge.com