Using Spss to Solve Statistical Problems: A Self-Instruction Guide

By David M. Shannon

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0132675765
• ISBN13: 9780132675765
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.5" x 0.8" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Using SPSS to solve statistical problems

The authors state that they wrote the books with two primary goals in mind. An opportunity to learn and use the statistical software package SPSS and to provide an introduction to a variety of statistical analysis procedures commonly used by graduate students, researchers and other professionals.They have succeeded extremely well on both occasions. The book has made a tremendous difference in the analyses of data collected for my master's thesis. The text is well written, well presented and in logical order. The examples, described in the book but also provided on a diskette, are very useful and clearly explain which procedures to use for which analysis and why. The illustrations in the book closely match the examples and the section "Interpreting SPSS --- results" is extremely useful in analyzing one's own results. One minor drawback: the text assumes total lack of computer literacy and goes to embarassing length in explaining how to open and save files. It can safely be assumed that most people using books of this kind would at least know that much.All in all, a great book and a real time saver!

Ideal supplementary book for learning basic statistics

This book is very easy to read. It covers most topics you will meet in basic statistics. Very good explanations in procedures and outputs. Although you can not find any statistical formula in this book, use it with conventional statistics text books will be very benefical.