SPSS Made Easy: A Practical Guide to Statistical Analysis for Students and Researchers

SPSS Made Easy provides readers with a step-by-step guide to running a variety of statistical analyses on SPSS. With hundreds of images illustrating how to set up data files, run tests, and where to focus when interpreting the results, the book is intended to provide the reader with confidence throughout. It also describes when to use different tests, how to check assumptions, and how to interpret and report results. The book’s 20 chapters cover the following:Questionnaire Processing (e.g., identifying missing data, reverse coding, internal reliability)Independent T-TestsMann–Whitney U TestsPaired T-TestsWilcoxon Signed-Rank TestsOne-Way Independent ANOVAsKruskal–Wallis TestsOne-Way Repeated Measures ANOVAsFriedman TestsTwo-Way Independent ANOVAsTwo-Way Mixed ANOVAsOne-Way Independent ANCOVAsOne-Way Independent MANOVAsPearson CorrelationSpearman CorrelationSimple Linear RegressionMultiple Linear RegressionBinary Logistic RegressionChi-Square Tests of IndependenceChi-Square Goodness of Fit TestsThe book provides a link to a website where the reader can download a spreadsheet containing the data used in the examples. Additionally, the book indicates how the reader can obtain SPSS data files for all of the analyses covered. The spreadsheet and data files are completely free. Read more