A Tool Kit for Quantitative Data Analysis: Using SPSS

ISBN-13: 9780230500457 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 128 str.

S Sarantakos

Opis

This straightforward, approachable text provides students with a beginner's guide and continuing reference tool for undertaking statistical data analysis using SPSS. Introduces key skills for every newcomer to the subject, such as choosing the appropriate test, loading data, using graphs and interpreting computer outputs.

Spis treści

About this book.- Introduction.- Getting to Know Your SPSS: SPSS its many faces.- Data analysis: Entering and Managing Data.- Transforming Data.- Tables, Central Tendency and Dispersion.- Data Analysis: Graphic Presentations.- Tests of Significance: Nonparametric Tests.- Tests of Significance: Parametric Tests.- Correlation Tests for Nominal Variables.- Correlation Tests for Ordinal Variables.- Correlation Regression for Interval/Ratio Variables.- Appendix.- Useful concepts.

O autorze

SOTIRIOS SARANTAKOS is an adjunct professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Charles Sturt University in Australia. He is the author of many books, including Social Research, Marriage and the Family, Same-Sex Couples, Cohabitation in Transition. He has been teaching research methods in Europe and Australia for more than two decades.