SPSS 15.0 Guide to Data Analysis | 
 enlarge | Author: Marija Norusis
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Pages: 672
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ISBN: 0131593897
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EAN: 9780131593893
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Publication Date: January 5, 2007
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The SPSS 15.0 Guide to Data Analysis is a friendly introduction to both data analysis and SPSS, the world’s leading desktop statistical software package. Easy-to-understand explanations and in-depth content make this guide both an excellent supplement to other statistics texts and a superb primary text for any introductory data analysis course. With the SPSS 15.0 Guide to Data Analysis, you get a jump-start on describing data, testing hypotheses, and examining relationships using SPSS. Author Marija Noru?is incorporates a wealth of data, including the General Social Survey and studies of Internet usage, opinions of the criminal justice system, marathon running times, library patronage, and the importance of manners. These data files are supplied with the book and are used throughout the examples and expanded chapter exercises. This unique combination of examples, exercises, and contemporary data gives you hands-on experience in analyzing data and makes learning about data analysis and statistical software relevant, unintimidating, and even fun! A data CD-ROM is included with this book.
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 SPSS 15--great resource guide October 22, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Great book; teaches stats and SPSS all at once.
Very thorough, very logical, very helpful.
 can be used just as a text on data analysis July 1, 2007
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
The prolific, long running SPSS author Norusis has added to her inventory of books, this recent text on the latest version of SPSS, 15. It is a book on statistics, that demonstrates how SPSS 15 can be used for sophisticated data reduction and analysis.
One way to read the book is simply as a general purpose text on data analysis. It covers the main statistical ideas and measures that have been developed over the last century to characterise data. Like chi-square, the Pearson chi square, Student's t distribution, Wilcoxon test, McNemar test, other nonparametric tests, linear regression etc. But the text is not just a grab bag explanation of each of these ideas. What is arguably at least as important is the explanation of how to devise hypotheses about your data. And how to test these in a statistically rigorous manner. (That will withstand the predatory comments of your collegues and competitors.)
Of course, some if not most readers will want to see how SPSS has these tests built in. Saving you valuable time having to recode them in some other programming language or package. Part of the attraction of using SPSS is that the routines are shown to be often easy to use, once you develop enough experience with the overall SPSS environment.
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