Darren George and Paul Mallery made a very good, exact book that really works as an introduction to SPSS. Those last versions For Windows of the SPSS software are excellent, sound and solid - and to write a book about that was not a very hard work. But the complexity of the program can be a disturbing burden to the beginner, believe me. The worst problem here is not related to the Windows commands explanations but with the...
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After spending more than 5000 hours (along with Paul Mallery, my co-author) to write the book, I now take a few moments for a note of a more personal nature. First, the book listed here is the 2nd edition (SPSS version 9.0). the 3rd edition has recently been released (on SPSS 10.0), and Allyn & Bacon (the publisher) also has our book (the 1st edition) for SPSS version 7.5.The most recent edition contains 28 chapters. ...
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This book has proven to be both an excellent tutorial and reference for not only SPSS but also statistics in general. The step-by-steps are easy to follow--even for the a novice computer user. Each chapter also provides a brief summary of when that statistical proceedure is appropriate which is quite useful. In addition, each chapter's "Output" section tell you which of SPSS's abundant output is most important during interpretation...
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