Understanding Statistics for the Social Sciences with IBM SPSS / Edition 1

by Robert Ho

Overview

Modern statistical software provides the ability to compute statistics in a timely, orderly fashion. This introductory statistics textbook presents clear explanations of basic statistical concepts and introduces students to the IBM SPSS program to demonstrate how to conduct statistical analyses via the popular point-and-click and the "syntax file" methods. The focal point is to show students how easy it is to analyse data using SPSS once they have learned the basics.

• Provides clear explanation of basic statistical concepts that provides the foundation for the beginner students’ statistical journey.
• Introduces the SPSS software program.
• Gives clear explanation of the purpose of specific statistical procedures (e.g., frequency distributions, measures of central tendencies, measures of variability, etc.).
• Avoids the conventional cookbook approach that contributes very little to students’ understanding of the rationale of how the correct results were obtained.

The advantage of learning the IBM SPSS software package at the introductory class level is that most social sciences students will employ this program in their later years of study. This is because SPSS is one of the most popular of the many statistical packages currently available. Learning how to use this program at the very start not only familiarizes students with the utility of this program but also provides them with the experience to employ the program to conduct more complex analyses in their later years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138742208
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/22/2017
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Doctor Robert Ho, now deceased, received his DPhil from Waikato University, New Zealand.. He retired from Central Queensland University in Australia in 2007 and was an affiliate of the Graduate School of Psychology at the Assumption University of Thailand.

Table of Contents

Preface. Introduction to Scientific Methodology of Research. Introduction to SPSS. Descriptive Statistics. Basic Mathematical Concepts and Measurement. Frequency Distributions. Graphing. Measures of Central Tendency. Measures of Variability/Dispersion. The Normal Distribution and Standard Scores. Correlation. Linear Regression. Inferential Statistics. Statistical Inference and Probability. Introduction to Hypothesis Testing. Hypothesis Testing: t for Independent and Correlated Groups. Hypothesis Testing: One-way Analysis of Variance. Hypothesis Testing: Chi-Square Test. Appendix: Summary of SPSS Syntax Files. References. Index.