Using SPSS for Social Statistics and Research Methods

ISBN 10: 1412973333 / ISBN 13: 9781412973335

Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc, 2009

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Using SPSS for Social Statistics and Research Methods
• Verlag: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1412973333
• ISBN-13: 9781412973335
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Ideal as a companion to a statistics or research methods text or as a stand-alone guide, Using SPSS for Social Statistics and Research Methods shows readers how to use SPSS software in statistical data analysis. This fully updated Second Edition features images and directions drawn from SPSS Version 17.0 and now uses the latest version of the GSS (General Social Survey) as a secondary data set.

Features:

Offers a fully updated graphics chapter that highlights new features available in SPSS 17.0, including information on alternative routes to creating graphics

Includes updated examples, screenshots, and tables throughout

Briefly introduces statistical techniques before moving on to demonstrations

Offers new or expanded discussions of regression, correlation, t-test, chi-square, lambda, gamma/somers′ d, and ANOVA

Uses several kinds of computer files including data files, output files, and syntax files

Covers a wide range of data analysis topics to help students who are working independently on a research proposal, project, or paper

This supplementary text is designed as a manual for SPSS use for social statistics and research methods classes and is an excellent companion to any undergraduate statistics or research methods textbook. It will also serve as a useful reference for those learning to use the SPSS software for the first time.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

William E. Wagner, III,  PhD, is Chair of the Department of Sociology at California State University, Dominguez Hills and Executive Director of the Social Science Research & Instructional Council of the CSU. He is co-author of Adventures in Social Research, 11th edition (SAGE, 2022), The Practice of Survey Research (SAGE, 2016), and A Guide to R for Social and Behavioral Sciences (SAGE, 2020) and author of Using IBM® SPSS® Statistics for Research Methods and Social Science Statistics, 7th edition (SAGE, 2019).