SPSS explained / Perry R. Hinton, Isabella McMurray and Charlotte Brownlow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1 Introduction; The Book Outline; The Chapter Outline; Chapter 2 Data Entry; Things to Think about before Entering Data; Using SPSS for the First Time; Data Editor; Sending Variables Across to a Different Box; Performing Calculations on Your Data; Recoding Data; Replacing Missing Values; Split File Command; Weight Cases Command; Importing Data from Excel; Chapter 3 Descriptive Statistics; Introduction to Descriptive Statistics; Data Entry; Frequencies Command; Descriptives Command.

Explore CommandCrosstabs Command; Custom Tables Command; Chapter 4 Illustrative Statistics; Introduction to Illustrative Statistics; Generating Graphs with Chart Builder; Histograms; Boxplots; Bar Charts; Clustered and Stacked Bar Charts; Error Bar Charts; Line Graphs; Pie Charts; Generating Graphs with Legacy Dialogs; Editing Graphs; Editing Axes; Chapter 5 Introduction to Statistical Testing; Different Statistical Tests; Introduction to Parametric Tests; The Logic of Significance Testing; Power; Confidence Intervals; Things to Consider before Analysing Your Data; Plotting the Normal Curve.

Testing For NormalityComparing More Than One Sample: The Assumption of Homogeneity of Variance; Violations of the Assumptions; Bootstrapping; Advice on Significance Testing; Chapter 6 t Tests; Independent Samples t Test; The Paired Samples t Test; Chapter 7 Introduction to Analysis of Variance (General Linear Model); Introduction; General Linear Model Command; A Model for Analysing Data; The General Linear Model; Key Terms in the Analysis of Variance; Univariate Analysis of Variance; Multivariate Analysis of Variance; Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance.

Contrasts and Multiple Pairwise ComparisonsMain Effects; Comparing Condition Means; Chapter 8 One Factor Analysis of Variance; One Factor Independent Analysis of Variance; One Factor Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance; Chapter 9 Two Factor Analysis of Variance; Two Factor Independent Measures Analysis of Variance; Two Factor Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance; Two Factor Mixed Design Analysis of Variance; Calculation of Simple Main Effects -- Two Factor Mixed Design Analysis of Variance; Chapter 10 Introduction to Multivariate Analysis of Variance.

Independent Multivariate Analysis of VarianceRepeated Measures Multivariate Analysis of Variance; Chapter 11 Nonparametric Two Sample Tests; Mann-Whitney U Test (For Independent Samples); Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test (For Related Samples); Chapter 12 Nonparametric k Sample Tests; Kruskal-Wallis Test for Independent Samples; Friedman Test for Related Samples; Chapter 13 Chi-Square Test of Independence and Goodness of Fit Test; Chi-Square as a Test of Independence; Custom Tables and Chi-Square; A 2 x 2 Crosstabulation and Chi-Square.