TY - BOOK TI - SPSS for Psychologists: a guide to data analysis using spss for windows SN - 9781403987877 U1 - 519.50285150 PY - 2007/// CY - New Nork PB - Palgrave Macmillan N1 - Chapter One Introduction 1 Psychological research and SPSS 2 Some basic statistical concepts 3 Working with SPSS 4 Starting SPSS 5 How to exit from SPSS 6 Some useful,option settings in SPSS Chapter Two Data entry in SPSS 1 The Data Editor window 2 Defining a variable in SPSS 3 Entering data 4 Saving a data file 5 Opening a data file 6 Data entry exercises 7 Answers to data entry exercises 8 Summary descriptive statistics and the Viewer window Chapter Three Tests of difference for two sample designs 1 An introduction to the /-test 2 The independent /-test 3 The paired /-test 4 An introduction to the nonparametric equivalents of the /-test 5 The Mann-Whitney test 6 The Wilcoxon test Chapter Four Tests of correlation 1 An introduction to tests of correlation 2 Descriptive statistics in correlation 3 Pearson's r: parametric test of correlation 4 Spearman's r: nonparametric test of correlation Chapter Five Tests for nominal data 1 Nominal data and dichotomous variables 2 Chi-square tests versus the chi-square distribution 3 The goodness-of-fit chi-square 4 The multi-dimensional chi-square 5 The McNemar test for repeated measures Chapter Six Data handling 1 An introduction to data handling 2 Sorting a file 3 Splitting a file 4 Selecting cases 5 Recoding values 6 Computing new variables 7 Counting values 8 Ranking cases 9 Other useful functions 10 Data file for scales or questionnaires Chapter Seven Analysis of variance 1 An introduction to analysis of variance (ANOVA) 2 One-way between-subjects ANOVA 3 Two-way between-subjects ANOVA 4 One-way within-subjects ANOVA 5 Two-way within-subjects ANOVA 6 Mixed ANOVA 7 Some additional points 8 Planned and unplanned comparisons 9 Nonparametric equivalents to ANOVA: Kruskal-Wallis and Friedman Chapter Eight Multiple regression 1 An introduction to multiple regression 2 Performing a multiple regression on SPSS Chapter Nine Analysis of covariance and multivariate analysis of variance 1 An introduction to analysis of covariance 2 Performing analysis of covariance on SPSS 3 An introduction to multivariate analysis of variance 4 Performing multivariate analysis of variance on SPSS Chapter Ten Discriminant analysis and logistic regression 1 Discriminant analysis and logistic regression 2 An introduction to discriminant analysis 3 Performing discriminant analysis on SPSS 4 An introduction to logistic regression 5 Performing logistic regression on SPSS Chapter Eleven Factor analysis, and reliability and dimensionality of scales 1 An introduction to factor analysis 2 Performing a basic factor analysis on SPSS 3 Other aspects of factor analysis 4 Reliability analysis for scales and questionnaires 5 Dimensionality of scales and questionnaires Chapter Twelve Beyond the basics 1 The syntax window 2 Option settings in SPSS 3 Getting help in SPSS 4 Printing from SPSS 5 Incorporating SPSS output into other documents 6 Graphing tips 7 Interactive charts Glossary References Appendix 1: Data files Appendix II: Defining a variable in SPSS versions 8 and 9 Appendix III: Adding regression lines to scattergrams before Version 12 1 Simple scattergram (Chapter 4, Section 2) 2 Scattergram with multiple groups (Chapter 9, Section 2) ER -