SPSS 15.0 Guide to Data Analysis [Paperback]

Marija Norusis (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0131593897 | ISBN-13: 978-0131593893 | Publication Date: January 5, 2007 | Edition: Edition Unstated

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.

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About the Author

Marija Norušis earned a Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Michigan. She was SPSS's first professional statistician. McGraw-Hill published her first book, The SPSS Introductory Guide. Since then she has written numerous volumes of highly acclaimed SPSS documentation, and textbooks that demystify statistics and SPSS. Dr. Norušis has been on the faculties of the University of Chicago and Rush Medical College, teaching statistics to diverse audiences. When not working on SPSS guides, Marija analyzes real data as a statistical consultant.

For those whose Lithuanian is rusty:
"Marija" is pronounced "Maria," not "Mar-eye-ja."
"Norušis" is pronounced "Norooshis," not "Neurosis."

Product Details

• Paperback: 672 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; Edition Unstated edition (January 5, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131593897
• ISBN-13: 978-0131593893
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #787,828 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars can be used just as a text on data analysis, June 30, 2007

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This review is from: SPSS 15.0 Guide to Data Analysis (Paperback)

The prolific, long running SPSS author Norusis has added to her inventory of books, this recent text on the latest version of SPSS, 15. It is a book on statistics, that demonstrates how SPSS 15 can be used for sophisticated data reduction and analysis.

One way to read the book is simply as a general purpose text on data analysis. It covers the main statistical ideas and measures that have been developed over the last century to characterise data. Like chi-square, the Pearson chi square, Student's t distribution, Wilcoxon test, McNemar test, other nonparametric tests, linear regression etc. But the text is not just a grab bag explanation of each of these ideas. What is arguably at least as important is the explanation of how to devise hypotheses about your data. And how to test these in a statistically rigorous manner. (That will withstand the predatory comments of your collegues and competitors.)

Of course, some if not most readers will want to see how SPSS has these tests built in. Saving you valuable time having to recode them in some other programming language or package. Part of the attraction of using SPSS is that the routines are shown to be often easy to use, once you develop enough experience with the overall SPSS environment.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SPSS 15--great resource guide, October 22, 2007

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Parker A. Duncan "Cookie Monster" (Irvine, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SPSS 15.0 Guide to Data Analysis (Paperback)

Great book; teaches stats and SPSS all at once.
Very thorough, very logical, very helpful.

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best purchases I have ever made!!, March 5, 2009

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