Guide Computing Stats With Spss For Windows Version 8

Preface *How to Access SPSS Release 8 for Windows and Enter Data *Describing Variables: Tables and Diagrams *Describing Variables Numerically: Averages, Variation and Spread *Shapes of Distributions of Scores *Standard Deviation: The Standard Unit of Measurement in the Social Sciences *Relationships Between Two or More Variables: Diagrams and Tables *Correlation Coefficients: Pearson's Correlation and Spearman's Rho *Regression: Prediction with Precision *Samples and Populations: Generating a Random Sample *Selecting Cases *Standard Error *The t-Test: Comparing Two Samples of Correlated/Related Scores *The t-Test: Comparing Two Groups of Unrelated/Uncorrelated Scores *Chi-square: Differences Between Samples of Frequency Data *Missing Values *Recoding Values *Computing New Variables *Ranking Tests: Non-parametric Statistics *The Variance Ratio Test: The F-ratio to Compare Two Variances *Analysis of Variance (ANOVA): Introduction to the One-Way Unrelated or Uncorrelated ANOVA *Analysis of Variance for Correlated Scores or Repeated Measures *Two-Way Analysis of Variance for Unrelated/Uncorrelated Scores *Multiple Comparisons in ANOVA *Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) and Two-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) Mixed Designs *Reading ASCII Text Files Into the Data Editor *Partial Correlation *Factor Analysis *Stepwise Multiple Regression *Hierarchical Multiple Regression *Item Reliability and Inter-Rater Agreement Appendix A: Confidence Intervals Appendix B: Other Statistics on SPSS