SPSS for you

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Statistics, Computers, Application Software

• Author: A Rajathi, P Chandran
• ISBN: 9788180941085
• Publisher: MJP Publishers
• Publication: March 17, 2015
• Imprint: Smashwords Edition
• Language: English

1. INTRODUCTION
   Population and Sample
   Observations and Variables
   Variables and Scales
   Quantitative or Measurement Variable on Interval Scale
   Qualitative Variable on Nominal Scale
   Ranked Variable on Ordinal Scale
   Frequency Distribution
   Properties of Frequency Distribution
   Normal Distribution
   Properties of Normal Curve
   Standard Normal Distribution
   Statistics and Parameters
   Sampling Distribution
   Sampling Distribution of Mean
   Hypothesis Testing
   Null and Alternate Hypothesis
   Percentiles and Confidence Interval
   Levels of Significance
   Two-tailed Test and One-tailed Test
   Type I and Type II Errors
   p-values
2. SPSS DATA FILE
   Opening a Data File in SPSS
   SPSS Data Editor
   Variable View
   Data View
   Entering Data into the Data Editor
   Saving the Data File
   Statistical Analysis
   Editing and Manipulating Data
   Inserting a New Variable
   Rearranging the Order of Variables in Variable View
   Deleting and Rearranging Items from the Viewer
   Creating a Page Break
   Changing the Type of Variable
   Missing Values
   Editing SPSS output
   Copying SPSS Output
   Copying a Table
   Copying a Graph
   Changing from Portrait to Landscape
   Printing from SPSS
   Printing the Output from the Viewer
   Closing SPSS
   Tutorials in SPSS
   Importing Data
   Importing Excel Files
3. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS WITH SPSS
   Descriptive Statistics
   Measures of Central Tendency
   Arithmetic Mean
   Median
   Mode
   Measures of Dispersion
   Standard Deviation
   Skewness
   Kurtosis
   Descriptive Statistics with SPSS
   Quantitative Data
   Nominal and Ordinal Data or Qualitative Data
   Review Exercises
4. CHARTS AND GRAPHS
   Bar Charts
   Simple Bar Charts
   Clustered Bar Charts
   Error Bar Charts
   Pie Chart
   Scatter Plots and Dot Plots
   Scatter Plots
   Line graphs
   Histogram
   Review Exercises
5. COMPARING AVERAGES
   Parametric Tests and Non-Parametric Tests to Compare Averages
   Students t-test
   Two-sample Test
   One-Sample t-Test
   Other tests for Comparing Averages
   Mann-Whitney’s Test for Independent Samples
   Wilcoxon Matched-Pairs Sample Test
   Review Exercises
6. ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA)
   Analysis of Variance—One Factor between Subjects
   One-Way ANOVA
   Two-way ANOVA—Two Treatment Factor Experiment and Analysis
   Multiple Analysis of Variance (MANOVA)
   Multiple Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) with SPSS
   Basics of Doing MANOVA in SPSS
   Review Exercises
7. CORRELATION
   Statistical Association between Variables
   Correlation—Simple and Multiple Correlation
   Types of Correlation
   Methods of Studying Correlation
   Graphical Method: Scatter Diagram
   Mathematical Method: Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient
   Bivariate Analysis with SPSS
   Rank Correlation
   Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient
   Spearman’s Rank Correlation with SPSS
   Kendall’s Rank Correlation Coefficient
   Kendall Rank Correlation with SPSS
   Multiple Correlation
   Multiple Correlation with SPSS
   Does Correlation Coefficient Reveals the Relationship between the Variable Fully?
   Review Exercises
8. REGRESSION
   Simple Linear Regression
   Simple Linear Regression Equation
   Scatter Plot and the Line of Best Fit
   Regression and One-way ANOVA
   Simple Regression with SPSS
   Multiple Regression Analysis
   Multiple Regression with SPSS
   Correlation Analysis vs Regression Analysis
   Review Exercises
9. CHI-SQUARE TEST
   Chi-Square Test
   Data Applicable to Chi-square Test
   Conditions for Validity of Chi-square Test
   Applications of Chi-square Test
   Procedure to Carry out Chi-square Test
   Chi-square Test with SPSS
   Chi-square Test for Goodness of Fit with SPSS
   Chi-square Test for Independence of Attributes with SPSS
   Review Exercises
   Glossary
   References