How to Use SPSS (Fifth Edition)

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Fifth Edition

v

What's New?

v

Audience

v

Organization

v

SPSS Versions

vi

Availability of SPSS

vi

Conventions

vi

Screenshots

vi

Practice Exercises

vii

Acknowledgments

vii

 

 

Chapter 1

Getting Started

1

1.1

Starting SPSS

1

1.2

Entering Data

1

1.3

Defining Variables

2

1.4

Loading and Saving Data Files

5

1.5

Running Your First Analysis

6

1.6

Examining and Printing Output Files

7

1.7

Modifying Data Files

8

 

 

Chapter 2

Entering and Modifying Data

11

2.1

Variables and Data Representation

11

2.2

Transformation and Selection of Data

12

 

 

Chapter 3

Descriptive Statistics

17

3.1

Frequency Distributions and Percentile Ranks for a Single Variable

17

3.2

Frequency Distributions and Percentile Ranks for Multiple Variables

20

3.3

Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Dispersion for a Single Group

21

3.4

Measures of Central Tendency and Measures of Dispersion for Multiple Groups

24

3.5

Standard Scores

27

 

 

Chapter 4

Graphing Data

29

4.1

Graphing Basics

29

4.2

The New SPSS Chart Builder

29

4.3

Bar Charts, Pie Charts, and Histograms

31

4.4

Scatterplots

33

4.5

Advanced Bar Charts

36

4.6

Editing SPSS Graphs

39

 

 

Chapter 5

Prediction and Association

41

5.1

Pearson Correlation Coefficient

41

5.2

Spearman Correlation Coefficient

43

5.3

Simple Linear Regression

45

5.4

Multiple Linear Regression

49

 

 

Chapter 6

Parametric Inferential Statistics

53

6.1

Review of Basic Hypothesis Testing

53

6.2

Single-Sample t Test

55

6.3

The Independent-Samples t Test

58

6.4

Paired-Samples t Test

61

6.5

One-Way ANOVA

65

6.6

Factorial ANOVA

69

6.7

Repeated Measures ANOVA

72

6.8

Mixed-Design ANOVA

75

6.9

Analysis of Covariance

79

6.10

Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)

81

 

 

Chapter 7

Nonparametric Inferential Statistics

85

7.1

Chi-Square Goodness of Fit

85

7.2

Chi-Square Test of Independence

87

7.3

Mann-Whitney U Test

90

7.4

Wilcoxon Test

93

7.5

Kruskal-Wallis H Test

95

7.6

Friedman Test

97

 

 

Chapter 8

Test Construction

99

8.1

Item-Total Analysis

99

8.2

Cronbach’s Alpha

100

8.3

Test-Retest Reliability

101

8.4

Criterion-Related Validity

102

 

 

Appendix A

Effect Size

103

 

 

Appendix B

Practice Exercise Data Sets

109

Practice Data Set 1

109

Practice Data Set 2

110

Practice Data Set 3

110

 

 

Appendix C

Glossary

113

 

 

Appendix D

Sample Data Files Used in Text

117

 

 

COINS.SAV

117

GRADES.SAV

117

HEIGHT.SAV

117

QUESTIONS.SAV

117

RACE.SAV

118

SAMPLE.SAV

118

SAT.SAV

118

Other Files

118

 

 

Appendix E

Information for Users of Earlier Versions of SPSS

119

Appendix F

Graphing Data with SPSS 13.0 and 14.0

121

 

 

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