Easy Use and Interpretation of SPSS for Windows
Answering Research Questions with Statistics
Published on 1. April 1998
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This book illustrates step-by-step how to use SPSS 7.5 for Windows to answer both simple and complex research questions. It describes in non-technical language how to interpret a wide range of SPSS outputs. It enables the user to develop skills on how to choose the appropriate statistics, interpret the outputs, and write about the outputs and the meaning of the results.
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George A. Morgan | Orlando V. Griego
Easy Use and Interpretation of SPSS for Windows
Answering Research Questions With Statistics
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04/1998
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc
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Contents: Preface. Research Problems, Approaches, and Questions. Overview of the High School and Beyond (HSB) Data Set and SPSS 7.5. Measurement and Descriptive Statistics. Data Entry, Checking Data, and Descriptive Statistics. More Descriptive Statistics, and Checking the Normal Distribution. Data Transformations: Count, Recode, Compute. Selecting and Interpreting Inferential Statistics. Cross-Tabulation and Nonparametric Association. Correlation and Scatterplots. Factor Analysis: Data Reduction With Principle Components Analysis. Several Measures of Reliability. Multiple Regression. Logistic Regression, and Discriminant Analysis. Independent and Paired Samples t Tests and Equivalent Nonparametric Tests. One-Way ANOVA With Multiple Comparisons for Between Groups Designs. Factorial ANOVA, Including Interactions, and ANCOVA. Repeated Measures and Mixed ANOVAs. Mulitivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). Appendices: Writing Research Problems and Questions. Select Cases: Analyzing Parts of a Sample. Working With SPSS Syntax (Log) Files. The HSB Codebook and How to Develop It. Answers to Interpretation Questions.