4th Edition

SPSS Demystified A Simple Guide and Reference

By Ronald D. Yockey Copyright 2023
282 Pages 302 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 302 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

282 Pages 302 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Without question, statistics is one of the most challenging courses for students in the social and behavioral sciences. Enrolling in their first statistics course, students are often apprehensive or extremely anxious toward the subject matter. And while IBM SPSS® is one of the more easy-to-use statistical software programs available, for anxious students who realize they not only have to learn... Read more

Part I: Introduction to SPSS, Descriptive Statistics, Graphical Procedures of Data, and Reliability Using Coefficient Alpha 1. Introduction to SPSS, 2. Descriptive Statistics: Frequencies, Measures of Central Tendency, and Measures of Variability, 3. Graphical Procedures, 4. Reliability (As Measured by Coefficient Alpha); Part II: Inferential Statistics 5. The One-Sample t Test, 6. The Independent-Samples t Test, 7. The Dependent-Samples t Test, 8. The One-Way Between Subjects Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), 9. The Two-Way Between Subjects Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), 10. The One-Way Within Subjects Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), 11. The One-Between–One-Within Subjects Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), 12. The Pearson r Correlation Coefficient, 13. Simple Linear Regression,  14. Multiple Linear Regression, 15. The Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Test, 16. The Chi-Square Test of Independence; Appendix A. Data Transformations and Other Procedures Appendix B. Solutions to Chapter Exercises

Biography

Ronald D. Yockey is an award-winning professor of Quantitative Methods at California State University, Fresno (USA) and has been teaching statistics at the undergraduate and graduate levels for more than 20 years. While enjoying both teaching and research, Professor Yockey’s greatest professional thrill is in seeing others discover that statistics is a subject that can not only be understandable but can also be fun.