Using SPSS for social statistics and research methods /
William E. Wagner III.
- Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, c2007.
- ix, 101 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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 respons -- 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 to Microsoft Word - Exporting output - Editing charts and graphs -- Advanced applications - Merging data from multiple files - Opening previously created syntax files - Creating new SPSS syntax files.