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Record Nr.

UNINA9910958992403321

Autore

Gerber Susan B.

Titolo

Using SPSS for Windows : Data Analysis and Graphics / / by Susan B. Gerber, Kristin Voelkl Finn

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Springer New York : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1999

ISBN

1-4757-3090-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 1999.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVI, 228 p. 52 illus.)

Disciplina

519.5/078/55369

519.507855369

Soggetti

Mathematical statistics - Data processing

Social sciences - Statistical methods

Statistics

Statistics and Computing

Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy

Statistics in Business, Management, Economics, Finance, Insurance

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1—The Nature of SPSS -- 2—Organization of Data -- 3—Measures of Location -- 4—Measures of Variability -- 5—Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Numerical Variables -- 6—Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Categorical Variables -- 7—Basic Ideas of Probability -- 8—Probability Distributions -- 9—Sampling Distributions -- 10—Using a Sample to Estimate Characteristics of One Population -- 11—Answering Questions About Population Characteristics -- 12—Differences Between Two Populations -- 13—Variability in One Population and in Two Populations -- 14—Inference on Categorical Data -- 15—Regression Analysis -- 16—Comparisons of Several Populations -- Appendix—Data Files.

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a self-teaching guide to the SPSS for Windows computer package. It is designed to be used with SPSS version 8.0 and beyond, although many of the procedures are also applicable to earlier versions of SPSS. This guide is ex­ tremely easy to follow since all procedures are outlined in a straightforward, step-by-step format. Because of its



self-instructional nature, the beginning stu­ dent can learn to analyze statistical data with SPSS without outside assistance. The reader is "walked through" numerous examples that illustrate how to use the SPSS package. The results produced by SPSS are shown and discussed in each application. Each chapter demonstrates statistical procedures and provides exer­ cises that reinforce the text examples and can be performed for further practice. Chapter 1 of this guide describes how to start the SPSS program and how to open data files. Chapters 2 through 16 give descriptions of statistical procedures which assume that a data file has been opened. This manual describes basic de­ scriptive statistics through multiple regression analysis, with three chapters (7-9) that discuss probability theory. Simple definitions of statistical concepts are pro­ vided for each procedure.