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SPSS 15.0 Guide to Data Analysis

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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.

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

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