SPSS Basics

SPSS Basics, 7th edition, is the ideal introduction to the SPSS software for students undertaking their first statistics or quantitative research project. Each chapter presents a different analyses and/or graph techniques step by step with figures to correspond to the steps.

Deborah Mikyo Oh has been a Professor in Research Methods and Statistics at California State University, Los Angeles, USA, since 1998. She earned her PhD from Columbia University, New York, USA, and teaches statistics to a diverse student population at undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels.

Part I: Descriptive Statistics 1. Levels of Measurement in SPSS Statistics 2. Entering and Saving a Set of Scores (Scale Variable) 3. Frequency Distribution 4. Histogram 5. Frequency Polygon 6. Mean, Median, and Mode 7. Mean and Standard Deviatione 8. Z-Scores (Standard Scores); Part II: Correlational Statistics 9. Scattergram 10. Correlation Coefficients: The Pearson r and Spearman's rho; Part III: Inferential Statistics 11. Simple Linear Regression 12. Multiple Linear Regression 13. One-Sample t Test 14. Paired-Samples t Test 15. Independent-Samples t Test 16. One-Way ANOVA 17. Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test 18. Chi-Square Test of Independence; Appendix A. Decision Rules for Declaring Statistical Significance Appendix B. Statistical Information by Chapter Appendix C. SPSS Software and Formatting Information by Chapter Appendix D. SPSS Command Summary Information by Chapter Appendix E. Changing SPSS Statistics Default Settings