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About the Book
Table of Contents
Introduction
- Who is this book for and what is it about?
- What makes this book different?
- Key themes underpinning the book
- Structure of the book
- Companion website
- Differing versions of SPSS
- And finally, what this book expects of you!
1. Getting started with SPSS
- Introduction
- Understanding what a dataset is
- Opening an existing dataset in SPSS
- Creating your own dataset
- Conclusions
2. Exploring, displaying and summarizing data
- Introduction
- Different types of variable
- Displaying and summarizing scale variables
- Displaying and summarizing nominal and ordinal variables
- Conclusions
3. Analyzing relationships between variables
- Introduction
- Preparing variables and the dataset for analysis
- Analyzing relationships between two variables
- Analyzing trends over time
- Conclusions
4. Good practice in presenting findings
- Introduction
- Generating and editing tables in SPSS
- Generating and editing charts in SPSS
- Chart builder
- Conclusions
5. Confidence intervals and statistical significance
- Introduction
- Sources of bias in samples
- Confidence intervals
- The concept of statistical significance
- Testing for statistical significance
- Conclusions
6. Conducting statistical tests and calculating effect sizes
- Introduction
- Selecting the appropriate statistical test
- Chi-square test
- Mann-Whitney U test
- Kruskal-Wallis test
- Independent samples t-test
- One-way ANOVA
- Spearman and Pearson correlations
- Wilcoxon test
- Related samples t-test
- Analyzing experimental research designs
- Dealing with weighting variables
- Conclusions
7. Where next?
- Introduction
- Develop your understanding of the nature of quantitative data and how they are generated
- Face your demons and have a closer look at the statistics behind the concepts covered in this book
- Move onto more advanced quantitative data analysis techniques involving three or more variables
- If you're still keen for more, think seriously about enrolling on an advanced statistics course or program
- Above all, make sure you enjoy yourself!
Appendix 1
- Defining variables in SPSS Version 9.0 and earlier
Appendix 2
- Editing charts in SPSS Version 12.0 and earlier
References
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