SPSS from A to Z: A Brief Step-by-Step Manual / Edition 1

by Richard C. Sprinthall

Overview

This brief SPSS manual covers virtually everything a first year statistics student will ever have to face! It includes all the necessary tests, as well as some addistional sophisticated tests for those students in advanced statistics or research methods courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780205626984
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	05/13/2008
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	72
Product dimensions:	8.10(w) x 10.60(h) x 0.20(d)

Table of Contents

Entering and retrieving data 5

Descriptives, including mean, median, mode, skewness, and graphing 8

Finding Standard Scores 11

Inferential Statistics–the single sample t ratio 12

The two-sample independent t ratio 13

Correlation, the Pearson r (including scatter-plot graphing) 15

Correlation, the Spearman correlation 17

The One-Way ANOVA 19

The Factorial ANOVA 22

Chi Square (includes both the 1 by k and the r by k) 26

Multiple Regression 29

Partial Correlation 32

Paired t ratio 33

Within Subjects ANOVA 35

Mann-Whitney U test 38

Kruskal—Wallis H test 40

Wilcoxon T 42

Friedman ANOVA by ranks 43

Reliability (includes test-retest, split half and coefficient alpha) 45

Validity 49

Analysis of Covariance-ANCOVA 51

Factorial ANCOVA 53

Multivariate Analysis of Variance–MANOVA 56

Discriminant Analysis 58

Mixed ANOVA–Split Plot 61

Factor Analysis 64