The SPSS 20 Guide

A basic SPSS guide written and formatted specifically for e-Readers. All figures and tables are taken from SPSS 20 and are formatted to be clearaly legible on a Kindle or iPad etc, used in landcsape orientation. By following practical exercises, you can go from complete novice to basic competence in about two hours. Everyone will probably want to use the first nine sections. These cover setting up an SPSS database, manipulating data (sorting and selecting), graphics, producing descriptive statistics and some very commonly used statistical tests - independent and paired-samples t-tests and chi-square test. For all of these, there are detailed instructions and the outputs are shown and explained. Further sections can be used according to individual interest. They present one and two-way analyses of variance, correlation and regression and non-parametric procedures (Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Wallis, Wilcoxon Signed Rank and Spearman correlation). All sections of the book are supported by data sets that can downloaded freely from the internet.