Easy Use and Interpretation of SPSS for Windows

Contents: Preface. Research Problems, Approaches, and Questions. Overview of the High School and Beyond (HSB) Data Set and SPSS 7.5. Measurement and Descriptive Statistics. Data Entry, Checking Data, and Descriptive Statistics. More Descriptive Statistics, and Checking the Normal Distribution. Data Transformations: Count, Recode, Compute. Selecting and Interpreting Inferential Statistics. Cross-Tabulation and Nonparametric Association. Correlation and Scatterplots. Factor Analysis: Data Reduction With Principle Components Analysis. Several Measures of Reliability. Multiple Regression. Logistic Regression, and Discriminant Analysis. Independent and Paired Samples t Tests and Equivalent Nonparametric Tests. One-Way ANOVA With Multiple Comparisons for Between Groups Designs. Factorial ANOVA, Including Interactions, and ANCOVA. Repeated Measures and Mixed ANOVAs. Mulitivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA). Appendices: Writing Research Problems and Questions. Select Cases: Analyzing Parts of a Sample. Working With SPSS Syntax (Log) Files. The HSB Codebook and How to Develop It. Answers to Interpretation Questions.