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Using SPSS for Windows: Analyzing and Understanding Data (2nd Edition)

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Authors: Samuel B. Green, Neil J. Salkind, Theresa M. Akey, Teresa M. Akey
Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 2 Pap/Dsk
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Pages: 430
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8.1 x 0.9

ISBN: 013020840X
Dewey Decimal Number: 300.2855369
EAN: 9780130208408
ASIN: 013020840X

Publication Date: September 8, 1999
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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
"Using SPSS for Windows: Analyzing and Understanding Data offers both the beginning and the advanced student and researcher a complete introduction to SPSS. In two parts, coverage proceeds from an introduction to how to use the program to advanced information on the specific SPSS techniques that are available."--BOOK JACKET.

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5 out of 5 stars

Great book for everyone December 6, 2001
1 out of 6 found this review helpful

I think this book is a great book for people understanding basic statistics and using SPSS. Actually, I also saw some reviewer didn't satisfy this book because it was too tough or could not cover more stuff. Honestly, I think this book already cover a lot of methods and I do not think one book can cover everything. Besides, if people need a specific method (for example: repeated measurement), I really do not think it is a right thing that they want to find every solutions from this book. It is unfair. Anyway, I still like this book because it is really a useful book.

5 out of 5 stars

Great book fir everyone December 6, 2001
0 out of 7 found this review helpful

I think this book is a great book for people understanding basic statistics and using SPSS. Actually, I also saw some reviewer didn't satisfy this book because it was too tough or could not cover more stuff. Honestly, I think this book already cover a lot of methods and I do not think one book can cover everything. Besides, if people need a specific method (for example: repeated measurement), I really do not think it is a right thing that they want to find every solutions from this book. It is unfair. Anyway, I still like this book because it is really a useful book.

5 out of 5 stars

Great book December 6, 2001
5 out of 14 found this review helpful

I think this book is a great book for people understanding basic statistics and using SPSS. Actually, I also saw some reviewer didn't satisfy this book because it was too tough or could not cover more stuff. Honestly, I think this book already cover a lot of methods and I do not think one book can cover everything. Besides, if people need a specific method (for example: repeated measurement), I really do not think it is a right thing that they want to find every solutions from this book. It is unfair. Anyway, I still like this book because it is really a useful book.

5 out of 5 stars

lifesaver December 5, 2000
53 out of 54 found this review helpful

It had been a difficult couple of years. I had more life changes than most people have in 30 years, and not the least was that I had moved three times. In the middle of it all, I took multivariate statistics, a graduate course that I didn't have all the prerequisites for. I loved the course, but wow, was it hard. The sheer volume of the work nearly flattened me. Then I had an emotional meltdown right in the middle of the semester project, which was to apply seven multivariate techniques to the data I had collected for my own research.pMy professor gave me an incomplete, bless him, and I had the summer to finish the project. Then I moved again and lost everything -- class notes, textbook, everything. pThen I found this book, and it was all I needed to complete most of the project. Each section describes a statistical procedure clearly, with examples. It is easy to decide whether the technique is appropriate for your data, or, as in my case, how to use your data to try a technique. Then you walk through the technique, step by step, with pictures. The book gives you annotated printouts to help you find the most useful information in what SPSS gives you.pThen, my favorite part -- a sample results section in APA style. If I hadn't had this, I would never have finished by my revised due date, and would have had to repeat the course. pDownside -- it tells you what choices to make as you go through each analysis without fully explaining the options. That's good when you're in a hurry (and I was) but I would love to see these authors make an expanded version to use when I have more time. I would like their help with choosing additional graphs, for instance.pIt doesn't help with non-SPSS techniques, of course, and I certainly could have used some help with Structural Equation Modeling. I have since bought Rex Kline's excellent book for that. pIf you need to do some heavyweight statistics, you have SPSS, and you find the SPSS help file impenetrable (if you can understand it, you don't need it), then this book is for you. It's worth its weight in gold, and it's heavy.

5 out of 5 stars

great spss book November 23, 2000
Green, Salkind and Akey did a great job in introducing SPSS procedures to students.pThe first strength of this book is its use of research scenarios, I found that most useful because sometimes students can't automatically relate some statistical techniques with the research question.pThe second strength is the extensive coverage of variety of topics. It covers most of the SPSS procedures, from graphing to descriptive statistics and inferential statistics.pThe third strength, the one that can be easily ignored, is the depth of its coverage of some advanced SPSS techniques. For example, the /lmatrix method in the 2-way ANOVA simple main effects and post-hoc contrasts situation is very advanced. Most SPSS books just use the traditional way to conduct the contrast, that is, using the omnibus sum square of error term and hand-computing the new F-value. In using /lmatrix, this process is greatly simplified and more accurate.pHowever, this shouldn't be the only statistics book at hand when you are trying to answer your research questions. An elementary statistics book is recommended as this book is not covering the computation and rational part of the analyses. In this case, I recommend Gravetter and Wallnau's Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (5th edition).pIf you use SPSS, this book is a must.

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