TY - BOOK AU - George,Darren AU - Mallery,Paul TI - SPSS for Windows step by step: a simple guide and reference, 15.0 update SN - 9780205569076 (pbk.) U1 - 519.502 PY - 2008/// CY - Boston PB - Pearson/A and B KW - Social sciences KW - Statistical methods KW - Computer programs N1 - 1. An overview of spss for windows step by step 2. Spss windows processes : mouse and keyboard processing, frequently-used dialog boxes, editing output, printing results, the options option 3. Creating and editing a data file 4. Managing data : listing cases, replacing missing values, computing new variables, recoding variables, exploring data, selecting cases, sorting cases, merging files 5. Graphs: creating and editing graphs and charts 6. Frequencies : frequencies, bar charts, histograms, percentiles 7. Descriptive statistics : measures of central tendency, variability, deviation from normality, size, and stability 8. Crosstabulation and chi-square ([chi]ΓΈ) analyses 9. The means procedure 10. Bivariate correlation: bivariate correlations, partial correlations, and the correlation matrix 11. The t test procedure : independent-samples, paired-samples, and one-sample tests 12. The one-way anova procedure: one-way analysis of variance 13. General linear models : two-way analysis of variance 14. General linear models : three-way analysis of variance and the influence of covariates 15. Simple linear regression 16. Multiple regression analysis 17. Nonparametric procedures 18. Reliability analysis : coefficient alpha (\03b1) and split-half reliability 19. Multidimensional scaling 20. Factor analysis 21. Cluster analysis 22. Discriminant analysis 23. General linear models : manova and mancova multivariate analysis of variance and covariance 24. General linear models : repeated-measures manova: multivariate analysis of variance with repeated measures and within-subjects factors 25. Logistic regression 26. Hierarchical loglinear models 27. General loglinear models 28. Residuals : analyzing left-over variance ER -