The SPSS Guide to the New Statistical Analysis of Data: by T.W. Anderson and Jeremy D. Finn (Springer Lab Manual)

This book is a self-teaching guide to the SPSS for Windows computer package. 'It is designed to be used hand-in-hand with The New Statistical Analysis of Data by T. W. Anderson and Jeremy D. Finn, although it may be used as a stand-alone manual as well. This guide is very easy to follow since all procedures are outlined in a straightforward, step-by-step format. Because of its self-instructional nature, the beginning student can learn to analyze statistical data with SPSS without outside assistance. The reader is "walked through" numerous examples that illustrate how to use the SPSS package. The results produced by SPSS are shown and discussed in each application. The data sets used in the examples are primarily those in the Anderson-Finn textbook. To the extent that SPSS performs the procedures in the Anderson-Finn text, this manual follows the book chapter-by-chapter. Except for Chapter 1, the section titles in the manual correspond to sections in the textbook. Each chapter demonstrates the statistical procedures described in the textbook and gives exercises that can be performed for further practice. (An instructor may choose to use these as additional class assignments. ) This manual was created using SPSS for Windows, Version 6. 1, on an IBM-compatible personal computer. There are other versions available, including: Version 7. 0 for Windows 95, Version 6. 1 for Macintosh, and Version 6. 1 for Power Macintosh. Front Matter....Pages i-xii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The Nature of SPSS....Pages 3-25 Front Matter....Pages 27-27 Organization of Data....Pages 29-40 Measures of Location....Pages 41-50 Measures of Variability....Pages 51-58 Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Numerical Variables....Pages 59-71 Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Categorical Variables....Pages 73-88 Front Matter....Pages 89-89 Basic Ideas of Probability....Pages 91-94 Probability Distributions....Pages 95-98 Sampling Distributions....Pages 99-104 Front Matter....Pages 105-105 Using a Sample to Estimate Characteristics of One Population....Pages 107-115 Answering Questions About Population Characteristics....Pages 117-131 Differences Between Two Populations....Pages 133-143 Variability in One Population and in Two Populations....Pages 145-149 Front Matter....Pages 151-151 Inference on Categorical Data....Pages 153-165 Simple Regression Analysis....Pages 167-181 Comparisons of Several Populations....Pages 183-194 Back Matter....Pages 195-203 This companion to The New Statistical Analysis of Data by Anderson and Finn provides a hands-on guide to data analysis using SPSS - one of the most widely-used and liked statistical computing packages available for the PC. With this Guide come instructions for obtaining the data sets to be analysed from over the World Wide Web. First, the authors provide a brief review of using SPSS. Then, following the organization of The New Statistical Analysis of Data, readers participate in analysing many of the data sets discussed in the book. In doing so, students both learn how to conduct reasonbly sophisticated statistical analyses using SPSS whilst at the same time gain insight into the nature and purpose of statistical investigation.