Using SPSS for social statistics and research methods /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Wagner, William E. (William Edward)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Pine Forge Press, [2007]
Subjects:	Social sciences > Statistical methods. SPSS for Windows.
Online Access:	Table of contents only

Table of Contents:

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 response
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.