Carver R.H., Nash J.G. Doing Data Analysis with SPSS Version 18

Boston: Richard Stratton, 2012. — 323 p. — ISBN: 978-0-8400-4916-2.The goal of this book is to supplement an introductory undergraduate statistics course with a comprehensive set of self-paced exercises. Students can work independently, learning the software skills outside of class, while coming to understand the underlying statistical concepts and techniques. Instructors can teach statistics and statistical reasoning, rather than teaching algebra or software. Both students and teachers can devote their energies to using data analysis in ways that inform their understanding of the world and investigate problems that really matter.A First Look at SPSS Statisitcs 18
Objectives
Launching SPSS/PASW Statistics 18
Entering Data into the Data Editor
Saving a Data File
Creating a Bar Chart
Saving an Output File
Getting Help
Printing in SPSS
Quitting SPSS
Tables and Graphs for One Variable
Objectives
Opening a Data File
Exploring the Data
Creating a Histogram
Frequency Distributions
Another Bar Chart
Printing Session Output
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Tables and Graphs for Two Variables
Objectives
Cross-Tabulating Data
Editing a Recent Dialog
More on Bar Charts
Comparing Two Distributions
Scatterplots to Detect Relationships
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One-Variable Descriptive Statistics
Objectives
Computing One Summary Measure for a Variable
Computing Additional Summary Measures
A Box-and-Whiskers Plot
Standardizing a Variable
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Two-Variable Descriptive Statistics
Objectives
Comparing Dispersion with the Coefficient of Variation Descriptive Measures for Subsamples
Measures of Association: Covariance and Correlation
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Elementary Probability
Objectives
Simulation
A Classical Example
Observed Relative Frequency as Probability
Handling Alphanumeric Data
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Discrete Probability Distributions
Objectives
An Empirical Discrete Distribution
Graphing a Distribution
A Theoretical Distribution: The Binomial
Another Theoretical Distribution: The Poisson
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Normal Density Functions
Objectives
Continuous Random Variables
Generating Normal Distributions
Finding Areas under a Normal Curve
Normal Curves as Models
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Sampling Distributions
Objectives
What Is a Sampling Distribution?
Sampling from a Normal Population
Central Limit Theorem
Sampling Distribution of the Proportion
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Confidence Intervals
Objectives
The Concept of a Confidence Interval
Effect of Confidence Coefficient
Large Samples from a Non-normal (Known) Pop
Dealing with Real Data
Small Samples from a Normal Population
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One-Sample Hypothesis Tests
Objectives
The Logic of Hypothesis Testing
An Artificial Example
A More Realistic Case: We Don't Know Mu or Si A Small-Sample Example
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Two-Sample Hypothesis Tests
Objectives
Working with Two Samples
Paired vs. Independent Samples
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Analysis of Variance (I)
Objectives
Comparing Three or More Means
One-Factor Independent Measures ANOVA
Where Are the Differences?
One-Factor Repeated Measures ANOVA
Where Are the Differences?
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Analysis of Variance (II)
Objectives
Two-Factor Independent Measures ANOVA
Another Example
One Last Note
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Linear Regression (I)
Objectives
Linear Relationships
Another Example
Statistical Inferences in Linear Regression
An Example of a Questionable Relationship
An Estimation Application
A Classic Example
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Linear Regression (II)
Objectives
Assumptions for Least Squares Regression
Examining Residuals to Check Assumptions A Time Series Example
Issues in Forecasting and Prediction
A Caveat about "Mindless" Regression
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Multiple Regression
Objectives
Going Beyond a Single Explanatory Variable
Significance Testing and Goodness of Fit
Residual Analysis
Adding More Variables
Another Example
Working with Qualitative Variables
A New Concern
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Nonlinear Models
Objectives
When Relationships Are Not Linear
A Simple Example
Some Common Transformations
Another Quadratic Model
A Log-Linear Model
Adding More Variables
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Basic Forecasting Techniques
Objectives
Detecting Patterns over Time
Some Illustrative Examples
Forecasting Using Moving Averages
Forecasting Using Trend Analysis
Another Example
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Chi-Square Tests
Objectives
Qualitative vs. Quantitative Data
Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
Chi-Square Test of Independence
Another Example
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Nonparametric Tests
Objectives
Nonparametric Methods
Mann-Whitney U Test
Wilcoxon Signed Ranks Test
Kruskal-Wallis H Test
Spearman's Rank Order Correlation
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Tools for Quality
Objectives
Processes and Variation
Charting a Process Mean
Charting a Process Range
Another Way to Organize Data
Charting a Process Proportion
Pareto Charts
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Appendix A. Dataset Descriptions
Appendix B. Working with Files
Objectives
Data Files
Viewer Document Files
Converting Other Data Files into SPSS