Discovering statistics using SPSS / Andy,Field
Material type: TextLanguage: English Series: Introducing Statistical Methods SeriesPublication details: Sage, 2011. London:Edition: 3rd edDescription: xxxiii,821 pISBN:- 9781847879073
- 300.285555 FIE-D
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PREFACE; How To Use This Book; Acknowledgements; Symbols used in this bok; Some maths revision; 1 Why is my evil lecturer forcing me to learn statistics?; 2 Everything you ever wanted to know about statistics (well, sort of); 3 The SPSS environment; 4 Exploring data with graphs; 5 Exploring assumptions; 6 Correlation; 7 Regression; 8 Logistic regression; 9 Comparing two means; 10 Comparing several means: ANOVA (GLM 1); 11 Analysis of covariance, ANCOVA (GLM 2); 12 Factorial ANOVA (GLM 3); 13 Repeated-measures designs(GLM 4); 14 Mixed design ANOVA (GLM 5); 15 Non-parametric tests.
' In this brilliant new edition Andy Field has introduced important new introductory material on statistics that the student will need and was missing at least in the first edition. This book is the best blend that I know of a textbook in statistics and a manual on SPSS. It is a balanced composite of both topics, using SPSS to illustrate important statistical material and, through graphics, to make visible important approaches to data analysis. There are many places in the book where I had to laugh, and that's saying a lot for a book on statistics. His excellent style engages the reader and.
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