"Using SPSS: An Interactive Hands-On Approach" is intended as a self-instructional book in which the reader, be it teacher, student or anyone, can learn to use SPSS on their own, and at their own pace, without the assistance of an instructor. As such, it would make a solid companion text for most statistics or research methods courses. The book uses statistics to teach SPSS, not SPSS to teach statistics. Each chapter includes an introduction and list of performance objectives indicating what the reader will be able to do after reading the chapter. SPSS Version 18 for Windows was used in the preparation of this book. The book is unique in that it encourages the reader to interact with SPSS on the computer as he/she works through examples in each chapter. This approach to learning may be novel to the reader, but the authors feel the best way to learn a subject is to interact with it in a meaningful manner. We have made every effort to ensure the book is 'user friendly' as we guide the reader through the interactive learning process. Bulleted phrases provide a step-by-step procedure to be followed by the reader when completing the exercises.
Chapter 1. First Encounters Chapter 2. Navigating in SPSS Chapter 3. Getting Data in and out of SPSS Chapter 4. Levels of Measurement Chapter 5. Entering Variables and Data and Validating Data Chapter 6. Working with Data and Variables Chapter 7. Using the SPSS Help Menu Chapter 8. Creating Basic Graphs and Charts Chapter 9. Editing and Embellishing Graphs and Charts Chapter 10. Printing Data Files and Output Files Chapter 11. Basic Descriptive Statistics Chapter 12. One-Sample t-Test and Nonparametric Binomial Test of Equality Chapter 13. Independent Samples t-Test and Nonparametric Mann-Whitney Test Chapter 14. Paired Samples t-test and Nonparametric Wilcoxon Test Chapter 15. One-Way ANOVA and Nonparametric Kruskal-Wallis Test Chapter 16. Two-Way (Factorial) ANOVA Chapter 17. ANOVA Repeated Measures and Nonparametric Friedman Test Chapter 18. Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) Chapter 19. Pearson Correlation and Nonparametric Spearman Correlation Chapter 20. Single Linear Regression Chapter 21. Multiple Linear Regression Chapter 22. Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Chapter 23. Chi-Square Test of Independence
