SPSS for Windows Step by Step

by Darren George and Paul Mallery

Book Overview

This book is designed to simplify the process of data analysis using SPSS. The clarity of this book is established by extensive use of screen shots (more than 200), clear writing, and step-by-step... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0205331270
• ISBN13: 9780205331277
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
• Length: 371 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

This book is essential

The book is extremely well written and is essential reading for anyone who wants to learn SPSS. It has great coverage of all major SPSS procedures except survival analysis. I highly recommend it!

Dummy-Proof!

If you want to go from a stupid to savvy about statistics, this is the book for you. No jargon, no obtuse references, just simple explanations and directions. I secretly credit this book with getting me through my Ph.D. Also,Darren George's willingness to answer questions and offer help via e-mail was invaluable. This book makes things so clear, that I am now able to explain statistics to others -- something that once would have seemed as likely as inventing a calorie-free shake. A must for any researcher in the social sciences.

A comment from the Author

Paul Mallery (my co-author) and I have gone to excruciating efforts, particularly on the first 16 chapters of this book, to create a tool that makes SPSS absolutely clear to the beginner. In the final 12 chapters our book explores more complex statistical procedures (log-linear models, factor analysis, discriminant analysis, multi-dimensional scaling, and others) in the identical format as the earlier chapters. The comments by the individuals from Iowa and Minnesota reflect the many e-mails we have received on this book from, literally, all over the world. While we routinely recommend that anyone who uses the book first take a course in statistics, for anyone with reasonable math aptitude, the first 16 chapters should be understandable without ANY statistical background. If you are looking for a book that is comprehensive yet ultimately understandable for fundamental statistical procedures (data entry, data manipulation, frequencies, descriptives, chi-squares, t-tests, correlations, ANOVAs, simple linear and multiple regression analysis, graphs) but includes excellent coverage on the more advanced procedures we suggest that this book was made for you. We, the authors, welcome your comments. These are considered carefully as we create new editions of the book.

By far the best beginner's SPSS reference

If you are as clueless about SPSS as I am, you must buy this book. It has clear, concise instructions in language a layman can understand. If you want a more advanced manual because you already know the basics, you may want to look elsewhere (Tabachnik & Fidel's book would be the next step up from this one). This would be a great textbook for a Statistics course at either the undergrad or graduate levels. It also explains each type of statistic clearly with great examples. It covers t tests, ANOVAs, regression, and much more. It was great for me to be able to review the statistic I was going to use to ensure that I understood it.

Great Book for dissertation reference! SPSS for Windows

I am a grad student working on my dissertation. I searched everywhere for an excellent and simple SPSS book. I was lost until I found yours. I have some of the others listed in the category; they are missing the step by step examples. I knew what I wanted to do, but did not know how to put into SPSS. They examples are CLEAR. There is even information about the statistics, so if you are unsure about assumptions for the type of test, you can check. Simple instructions and EXAMPLES FOR THE SCREEN. I love it.Thanks for putting together an excellent reference tool.