Marija J. Norušis Bücher

The SPSS 15.0 Guide to Data Analysis is a friendly introduction to both data analysis and SPSS, the world’s leading desktop statistical software package. Easy-to-understand explanations and in-depth content make this guide both an excellent supplement to other statistics texts and a superb primary text for any introductory data analysis course. With the SPSS 15.0 Guide to Data Analysis , you get a jump-start on describing data, testing hypotheses, and examining relationships using SPSS. Author Marija Norušis incorporates a wealth of data, including the General Social Survey and studies of Internet usage, opinions of the criminal justice system, marathon running times, library patronage, and the importance of manners. These data files are supplied with the book and are used throughout the examples and expanded chapter exercises. This unique combination of examples, exercises, and contemporary data gives you hands-on experience in analyzing data and makes learning about data analysis and statistical software relevant, unintimidating, and even fun! A data CD-ROM is included with this book.

In this book we consider how to proceed from individual observations to the whole. There are many ways in which the fragments may be assembled, and these can result in different views of the whole. Statistics books differ in what parts of the assembly process they emphasize.

Base manual for SPSS/PC+ 4.0 = Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 4.0