Presenting your data with SPSS explained /
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| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Grooup,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION; THE EXAMPLE STUDY USED THROUGHOUT THE BOOK; THE BOOK OUTLINE; CHAPTER 2 UNDERTAKING A RESEARCH PROJECT; THE RESEARCH PROCESS; STAGE 1: THE PURPOSE OF THE RESEARCH; STAGE 2: SETTING UP THE STUDY; STAGE 3: CARRYING OUT THE RESEARCH AND COLLECTING THE DATA; STAGE 4: MAKING SENSE OF THE DATA; STAGE 5: PRESENTING THE RESEARCH FINDINGS; CHAPTER 3 WHAT ARE YOU MEASURING IN YOUR RESEARCH?; DESCRIBING YOUR RESULTS; LEVELS OF MEASUREMENT: NOMINAL, SCALE AND ORDINAL DATA
- CONSTRUCTING NOMINAL, SCALE OR ORDINAL OUTCOME MEASURESCODING YOUR DATA FOR INPUT INTO SPSS; THE SPARCOTE STUDY; CHAPTER 4 ENTERING DATA INTO SPSS; A FIRST LOOK AT SPSS; SETTING UP THE SPSS DATASET (YOUR RESULTS SPREADSHEET); ENTERING THE DATA INTO SPSS; EDITING THE DATASET; TRANSFERRING THE RESULTS FROM OTHER SOFTWARE INTO SPSS; A FINAL CHECK OF YOUR DATASET; CHAPTER 5 A FIRST LOOK AT THE RESULTS; OPENING AN SPSS DATA FILE; THE IBM SPSS STATISTICS VIEWER; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS FOR EACH VARIABLE; THE FREQUENCIES COMMAND; A FIRST DESCRIPTION OF THE SPARCOTE STUDY RESULTS
- DESCRIBING THE RESULTS OF A SINGLE VARIABLECHAPTER 6 CREATING TABLES; CREATING TABLES IN SPSS; CROSSTABULATING DATA; THE CROSSTABS COMMAND; INTRODUCTION TO CUSTOM TABLES; CHAPTER 7 CREATING GRAPHS; CHOOSING A CHART; USING CHART BUILDER; CREATE GRAPH
- GENERATING GRAPHS FROM OUTPUT TABLES; CHAPTER 8 EDITING TABLES AND GRAPHS FOR PRESENTATION; EDITING A TABLE
- PIVOT TABLE; EDITING A CHART
- CHART EDITOR; EXPORTING TABLES AND GRAPHS TO OTHER APPLICATIONS; CHAPTER 9 AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL TESTS IN SPSS; WHY PERFORM A STATISTICAL TEST?; UNDERTAKING STATISTICAL TESTS WITH SPSS
- LOOKING FOR RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN VARIABLESTHE CHI-SQUARE TEST OF AN ASSOCIATION BETWEEN CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; THE PEARSON TEST OF A LINEAR RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SCALE VARIABLES; THE t TEST FOR COMPARING TWO CATEGORIES ON A SCALE MEASURE; Glossary; Index