SPSS for Windows Made SimpleThis new edition incorporates recent developments in SPSS (and in Windows) by drawing upon screen images, dialog boxes and output from SPSS 8 in the Windows 95 environment. A feature of SPSS 8 is the new, powerful Viewer output manager, which enables the user to produce better tables, charts and graphs by affording greater editorial control over both content and appearance than was possible in previous versions. The first six chapters (on data handling and exploration, graph plotting and two-sample statistical tests) and the associated exercises provide an introduction to the basics of working with SPSS, while the remaining chapters cover more advanced topics such as various ANOVA designs, correlation and regression, loglinear analysis, discriminant anlysis and factor analysis. In response to the comments of readers worldwide, the authors have expanded sections on the inputting and exploration of data, graphical procedures and advice on choosing appropriate statistical tests. The remaining chapters have also been revised. Where appropriate, chapters include images of dialog boxes, output listings and exercises for student courses. |
Contents
PREFACE viii | |
CHAPTER 3 | |
CHAPTER 7 | |
1 | |
5 | |
1 | |
Exercises 23 71 | |
Exploratory data analysis EDA 79 | |
The mnemonics experiment revisited 180 | |
189 | |
introduces the reader to some general basic principles of computing Chapter | 2 |
WINDOW OPERATIONS FOR SPSS | 11 |
1 | 17 |
CHAPTER 10 | 45 |
CHAPTER 11 | 62 |
29 | 70 |
CHAPTER 12 | |
2 | |
Describing categorial data 84 | |
CHOOSING A STATISTICAL TEST 133 | |
COMPARING THE AVERAGES OF TWO SAMPLES 152 | |
Exercises 911 168 | |
CHAPTER 13 | |
337 | |
Exercises 1819 285 | |
378 | |
Common terms and phrases
analysis bar chart bloodtyp boxplots Centimetres Chapter Click on Continue Click on OK column contingency table Crosstabs Data Editor window data file Define dependent variable described in Section descriptive statistics dialog box Figure double-click drop-down menu Drug enter Entrance Exam experimental factorial ANOVA factorial experiments floppy disk folder frequencies gender graph grouping variable Height in Centimetres highlight icon independent samples interaction interval data levels loglinear main effects missing values Mnemonic multiple comparisons nominal data nonparametric tests null hypothesis obtain OK to run one-factor One-Way ANOVA Opening SPSS Options outliers Output Listing p-value Pearson correlation Placebo procedure radio button Recode regression repeated measures Save scatterplot scores shown in Figure shown in Output significant SPSS Viewer square standard deviation statistical test subjects experiment subjects factor Summaries for Groups treatment factor two-factor University Exam value labels Variable box Variable dialog box variable names variance Wilcoxon