This quick, simple, and user-friendly introduction to SPSS for Windows has now been updated so that it can be used with Versions 10, 11, 12, and 13 of the software. Two short chapters have been added to the third edition, one on recoding variables and handling large data files and another on using SPSS syntax, and a new appendix discusses procedures for exporting and importing Excel files. The supporting Website allows data sets used in the book to be downloaded from the Internet and provides additional examples from various social science disciplines. The third edition retains all of the features that have made the text so attractive to students and teachers: the material is concise and focused, enabling most users to learn the basics comfortably within 10 hours; all the most widely used statistical techniques and graphic facilities in SPSS for Windows are clearly described; every statistical procedure is explained with the help of a step-by-step analysis of a numerical example taken from real data in published research; and the authors have chosen small data sets so that readers do not waste unnecessary time inputting data. Screenshots on the page make it easy for students to cross between the text and the screen.
Preface to the Third Edition
Choosing an Appropriate Statistical Procedure
Where to Find Things in SPSS
1. Introduction
2. Using Windows
3. Loading Data and Printing
4. General Descriptive Statistics
5. Correlation Coefficients
6. Chi-square Tests
7. Independent-samples, Paired-samples, and One-sample t Tests
8. Mann-Whitney U and Wilcoxon Matched-pairs Tests
9. One-way Analysis of Variance
10. Multifactorial Analysis of Variance
11. Repeated-measures Analysis of Variance
12. Multiple Regression
13. Log-linear Analysis
14. Factor Analysis
15. Charts and Graphs
16. Handling Variables and Large Data Files
17. Syntax Windows
Appendix 1: Handling Dates
Appendix 2: Exporting and Importing Excel Files
References
Index
