Using SPSS for social statistics and research methods
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| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif.:
Pine Forge Press,
2007.
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Table of Contents:
- 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