An SPSS Companion to Political Analysis introduces SPSS using actual political data, getting students to employ the tools of their methods course right away in the computer lab. With more than 110 screen shots, straightforward instructions, and customised data sets - for both students and full versions of SPSS - the workbook companion equips students to do real political science research and analysis. As part of this useful guide, a CD-ROM includes five different datasets: Two individual-level survey datasets (the 2000 US National Election Study and the 1998 US General Social Survey), two datasets containing aggregate-level variables (on the fifty US states and on 114 nations of the world), and a dataset that measures partisanship, voting behaviour, and ideology of members of the United States Senate.
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Philip H. Pollock III is professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. He has taught courses in research methods at the undergraduate and graduate levels for nearly 30 years. His main research interests are American public opinion, voting behavior, techniques of quantitative analysis, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. His recent research has been on the effectiveness of Internet-based instruction. Pollock's research has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Social Science Quarterly, and British Journal of Political Science. Recent scholarly publications include articles in Political Research Quarterly, the Journal of Political Science Education, and PS: Political Science and Politics.
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Great textbook! Very easy to follow. Information is given in just the right quantity, not too repetitive to the point where it gets boring, but repetitive enough to help you remember. I have to admit that I enjoy the exercises in this book so much that I've actually worked ahead a few weeks in my data analysis class. Exercises are also very interesting and explore neat relationships.
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Excellent introduction to quantitative analysis,
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This book takes us step by step through many useful guided examples and makes sure to stop and briefly explain concepts along the way. The topics and instructions are helpful for getting comfortable using SPSS (and many of the most commonly employed statistical tests are included in the chapters). By the end of this book, you feel confident enough to strike out and perform your own quantitative analyses. The conversational tone makes it much easier to grasp the concepts. SPSS is a good introduction to quantitative analysis, and this companion is an excellent introduction to SPSS.
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This is an excellent walk-through of how to use all the basic features of SPSS, with good explanations about what the outputs mean. I would recommend this to anyone who is looking for a beginning and basic knowledge of how to use SPSS.
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scale axis title, pedantic pontificator, regions having fewer democracies, regions having more democracies, interactive scatterplot, logged odds, favorite independent variable, higher moralism, multiple line chart, optional case selection condition, statistic radio button, mean comparison analysis, mean comparison table, frequency tables box, political knowledge increases, missing values box, abortion scale, logistic regression output, clustered bar chart, abortion opinions, multiple regression output, thermometer ratings, text import wizard, equation label, confidence boundary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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scale axis title, pedantic pontificator, regions having fewer democracies, regions having more democracies, interactive scatterplot, logged odds, favorite independent variable, higher moralism, multiple line chart, optional case selection condition, statistic radio button, mean comparison analysis, mean comparison table, frequency tables box, political knowledge increases, missing values box, abortion scale, logistic regression output, clustered bar chart, abortion opinions, multiple regression output, thermometer ratings, text import wizard, equation label, confidence boundary Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Data Editor, Cancel Help, Chart Editor, Variable View, Hillary Clinton, Assign Variables, Data View, Define Groups, Output Variable, Target Variable, United States, Binary Logistic, Chart Type, Define Simple Line, Democratic Party, National Election Study, Omnibus Tests of Model Coefficients, One-Sample Test, Define Lines, Lines Represent, Senator Shelby, Chart Values, Compute Variable, Dependent List, Frequency Percent Valid New!
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