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SPSS for dummies

by Arthur Griffith

(--For dummies)

Wiley, c2007

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SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a data management and analysis software that allows users to generate solid, decision-making results by performing statistical analysis. This book provides just the information needed: installing the software, entering data, setting up calculations, and analyzing data. It covers computing cross tabulation, frequencies, descriptive ratios, means, bivariate and partial correlations, linear regression, and much more. It explains how to output information into striking charts and graphs. For ambitious users, it also covers how to program SPSS to take their statistical analysis to the next level.

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Introduction. Part I: The Fundamental Mechanics of SPSS. Chapter 1: Introducing SPSS. Chapter 2: Installing and Running the Software. Chapter 3: A Simple Statistical Analysis Example. Part II: Getting Data into and out of SPSS. Chapter 4: Entering Data from the Keyboard. Chapter 5: Reading and Writing Files. Chapter 6: Data and Data Types. Chapter 7: Messing with the Data After It's in There. Chapter 8: Getting Data out of SPSS. Part III: Graphing Data. Chapter 9: Fundamentals of Graphing. Chapter 10: Some Types of Graphs. Chapter 11: More Types of Graphs. Chapter 12: Maps. Part IV: Analysis. Chapter 13: Executing an Analysis. Chapter 14: Some Analysis Examples. Part V: Programming SPSS with Command Syntax. Chapter 15: The Command Syntax Language. Chapter 16: Command Syntax Language Examples. Part VI: Programming SPSS with Python and Scripts. Chapter 17: The Python Programming Language. Chapter 18: Python inside SPSS. Chapter 19: Scripts. Part VII: The Part of Tens. Chapter 20: Ten Modules You Can Add to SPSS. Chapter 21: Ten Useful Things You Can Find on the Internet. Glossary. Index.

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