SPSS Demystified: A Step-by -Step Guide to Successful Data Analysis

Description

Without question, statistics is one of the most challenging courses for students in the social and behavioral sciences. Enrolling in their first statistics course, students are often apprehensive or extremely anxious toward the subject matter. And while SPSS is one of the more easy-to-use statistical software programs available, for anxious students who realize they not only have to learn statistics but also new software, the task can seem insurmountable. Keenly aware of students’ anxiety with statistics (and the fact that this anxiety can affect performance), Ronald Yockey has written SPSS Demystified: A Step-by -Step Guide to Successful Data Analysis, 1/e. Through a comprehensive, step-by-step approach, this text is consistently and specifically designed to both alleviate anxiety toward the subject matter and build a successful experience analyzing data in SPSS.

 

Through a comprehensive, step-by-step approach, this text is consistently and specifically designed to both alleviate anxiety toward the subject matter and build a successful experience analyzing data in SPSS.

 

Chapter 1: Introduction

Starting SPSS

Data Editor Window

                        Variable View Window

                        Data View Window

Viewer (Output) window

Saving files

Printing files

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 2: Descriptive Statistics

            Frequencies

            Measures of Central Tendency

            Analysis of Groups Using the Compare Means Procedure

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 3: Graphical Procedures

Bar Charts

Histograms

Scatterplots

Boxplots

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 4: Reliability Analysis

Example

            Research Question

Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 5: One Sample t Test

            Example

            Hypotheses and Research Question

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of the One Sample t Test

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 6: Independent Samples t Test

            Example

            Hypotheses and Research Question

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of the Independent Samples t Test

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 7: Dependent Samples t Test

            Example

            Hypotheses and Research Question

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of the Dependent Samples t Test

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 8: One—Way Between Subjects ANOVA

            Example

            Hypotheses and Research Question

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of the One—Way Between Subjects ANOVA

Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 9: Two—Way Between Subjects ANOVA

Example

            Hypotheses and Research Questions

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of the Two—Way Between Subjects ANOVA

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 10: One—Way Within Subjects ANOVA

Example

            Hypotheses and Research Question

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of the One—Way Within Subjects ANOVA

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 11: One—Between One—Within Subjects ANOVA

Example

            Hypotheses and Research Questions

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of the One—Between One—Within Subjects ANOVA

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 12: Correlation

Example

            Hypotheses and Research Question

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of Correlation

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 13: Simple Regression

Example

            Hypotheses and Research Question

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of Simple Regression

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 14: Multiple Regression

Example

            Hypotheses and Research Questions

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of Multiple Regression

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 15: Chi—Square Goodness of Fit Test

Example

            Hypotheses and Research Question

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of the Chi—Square Goodness of Fit Test

            Chapter Exercises

 

Chapter 16: Chi—Square Test of Independence

Example

            Hypotheses and Research Question

            Data Entry and Analysis in SPSS

            Assumptions of Chi—Square Test of Independence

            Chapter Exercises

 

 

Appendix A: Data Transformations and Other Procedures

 

Appendix B: Importing Files

 

Appendix C: Solutions to Chapter Exercises

 

References