A Visual Approach to SPSS for Windows A Guide

SPSS is, essentially, a visually-driven program, but most texts rely primarily on a verbal approach to describe its use. A Visual Approach to SPSS for Windowsis the first text of its kind to employ what the author refers to as "visual sequencing" to teach students how to use SPSS. The Basics; Entering and Saving Data; Modifying Data in the Data Editor; Defining Variablesrs" Properties; TheSPSS StatisticsViewer; Graphing Data with theChart Builder; Data Transformation and Case Selection; TheFrequenciesProcedure; Other Procedures for Obtaining Descriptive Measures; Bivariate Correlation and Regression; Multiple Regression and Correlation; Chi-Square Tests of Independence and Goodness-of-Fit; One and Two Sample T-Tests; One-Way Analysis of Variance; Two-Way and Higher Order Analyses of Variance; Within-Subjects ANOVAS Nonparametric or Distribution Free Tests; Exploratory Factor Analysis; Discriminant Analysis.Any interested in learning to use SPSS.

Leonard Stern teaches courses in statistics, research methods, and human memory in the Department of Psychology at Eastern Washington Unversity. He received a B.A. in chemistry from Colby College, an M.A. from the University of Oregon in interdisciplinary studies, and an M. A. and Ph.D. in experimental psychology from the University of Oregon. He is the author of a text book on memory and one describing use of a software package to perform psychology experiments using computers. One of his current areas of interest is circumstances under which false memory occurs.

Preface
The Basics
Entering and Saving Data
Modifying Data in the Data Editor
Defining Variablesrsquo; Properties
TheSPSS StatisticsViewer
Graphing Data with theChart Builder
Data Transformation and Case Selection
TheFrequenciesProcedure
Other Procedures for Obtaining Descriptive Measures
Bivariate Correlation and Regression
Multiple Regression and Correlation
Chi-Square Tests of Independence and Goodness-of-Fit
One and Two Sample T-Tests
One-Way Analysis of Variance
Two-Way and Higher Order Analyses of Variance
Within-Subjects ANOVAS
Nonparametric or Distribution Free Tests
Exploratory Factor Analysis
Discriminant Analysis
Using theChart Editorto Insert a Reference Line and Data Labels
Using theChart Editorto Add a Title to the X-Axis
UsingCodebookto Obtain an Overview of the Variables in a Data File
References
Index
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A Visual Approach to SPSS for Windows A Guide to SPSS 17.0

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