Introduction 1Part 1: Getting Started with SPSS 5Chapter 1: Introducing SPSS 7Chapter 2: Finding the Best SPSS for You 17Chapter 3: Getting to Know SPSS by Running a Simple Session 25Part 2: Getting Data into and out of SPSS 43Chapter 4: Understanding SPSS Data: Defining Metadata 45Chapter 5: Opening Data Files 59Chapter 6: Getting Data and Results from SPSS 71Chapter 7: More about Defining Your Data 81Part 3: Messing with Data in SPSS 95Chapter 8: The Transform and Data Menus 97Chapter 9: Computing New Variables 119Chapter 10: Some Useful Functions 133Chapter 11: Combining Files 147Part 4: Graphing Data 161Chapter 12: On the Menu: Graphing Choices in SPSS 163Chapter 13: Building Graphs Using Chart Builder 183Part 5: Analyzing Data 211Chapter 14: Using Descriptive Statistics 213Chapter 15: Knowing When Not to Trust Your Data 227Chapter 16: Testing One Group 239Chapter 17: Showing Relationships between Categorical Variables 251Chapter 18: Showing Relationships between Continuous Dependent and Categorical Independent Variables 267Chapter 19: Showing Relationships between Continuous Variables 285Part 6: Getting More Advanced with Analyzing Data 301Chapter 20: Doing More Advanced Analyses 303Chapter 21: What Is Normal Anyway? 327Chapter 22: When to Do What 345Part 7: Making SPSS Your Own 351Chapter 23: Changing Settings 353Chapter 24: Editing Charts and Chart Templates 371Chapter 25: Editing Tables 383Part 8: Programming SPSS with Command Syntax 393Chapter 26: Getting Acquainted with Syntax 395Chapter 27: Adding Syntax to Your Toolkit 403Part 9: The Part of Tens 413Chapter 28: Ten (or So) Modules You Can Add to SPSS 415Chapter 29: Ten Useful SPSS Resources 425Chapter 30: Ten SPSS Statistics Gotchas 433Index 443
Jesus Salcedo is an independent statistical and data-mining consultant who has been using SPSS products for more than 25 years. He has written numerous SPSS courses and trained thousands of users. Keith McCormick has been all over the world training and consulting in all things SPSS, statistics, and data mining. He now authors courses on the LinkedIn Learning platform and coaches executives on how to effectively manage their analytics teams.