SPSS 11.0 Guide to Data Analysis, Volume 1This guide has a Data CD-ROM included. The SPSS(R) 11.0 Guide to Data Analysis is a friendly introduction to both data analysis and SPSS, the world's leading desktop statistical software package. Easy-to-understand explanations and in-depth content make this guide both an excellent supplement to other statistics texts and a superb primary text for any introductory data analysis course. With the SPSS(R) 11.0 Guide to Data Analysis, you get a jump-start on describing data, testing hypotheses, and examining relationships using SPSS. For SPSS 11.0, author Marija Norusis incorporates a wealth of new data, including the General Social Survey for 2000 and studies of Internet usage, opinions of the criminal justice system, marathon running times, library patronage, and the importance of manners. These new data files are supplied with the book and are used throughout the examples and expanded chapter exercises. This unique combination of examples, exercises, and contemporary data gives you hands-on experience in analyzing data and makes learning about data analysis and statistical software relevant, unintimidating, and even fun. |
Contents
Getting Started with SPSS | 1 |
Examining Relationships | 3 |
Looking at Distributions | 7 |
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analysis of variance Analyze answer the following average hours axis bar chart birthrate calculate cell Chapter cholesterol codes column compute confidence interval Crosstabs crosstabulation Data Editor data file data values degree dependent variable descriptive statistics dialog box e-mail equal estimate example expected counts file to answer following questions frequency table gender groups gssnet.sav high school histogram hypothesis is true income Internet users labeled less look males measure median menus choose missing values netcat normal distribution null hypothesis number of hours observed significance level obtain One-Sample T Test Options dialog box output pairs percentage percentiles pivot table population mean population value predicted procedure regression reject the null relationship responses sample means scatterplot select the variable shown in Figure SPSS standard deviation standard error standard score stem-and-leaf plot summary television viewing tell test the null Total tvhours usenet week What's women Yes Yes