- Cover
- Introduction
- Part 1: Getting Started with SPSS
- Chapter 1: Introducing SPSS
- SPSS’s Job, Our Job, and Your Job
- Garbage In, Garbage Out: Recognizing the Importance of Good Data
- Talking to SPSS: Can You Hear Me Now?
- Getting Help When You Need It
- Chapter 2: Finding the Best SPSS for You
- Campus Editions
- Subscription Plans
- Commercial Editions
- What’s New in Version 27
- Chapter 3: Getting to Know SPSS by Running a Simple Session
- Opening a Dataset
- Running an Analysis
- Interpreting Results
- Creating Graphs
- Investigating Data
- Part 2: Getting Data into and out of SPSS
- Chapter 4: Understanding SPSS Data: Defining Metadata
- Entering Variable Definitions on the Variable View Tab
- Entering and Viewing Data Items on the Data View Tab
- Chapter 5: Opening Data Files
- Getting Acquainted with the SPSS File Format
- Reading Simple Data from a Text File
- Transferring Data from Another Program
- Saving Data
- Chapter 6: Getting Data and Results from SPSS
- Exporting Data to Another Program
- Navigating SPSS Statistics Viewer
- Moving SPSS Output to Other Applications
- Printing Data
- Chapter 7: More about Defining Your Data
- Working with Dates and Times
- Using the Date and Time Wizard
- Creating and Using a Multiple-Response Set
- Copying Data Properties
- Part 3: Messing with Data in SPSS
- Chapter 8: The Transform and Data Menus
- Sorting Cases
- Selecting the Data You Want to Look At
- Splitting Data for Easier Analysis
- Counting Case Occurrences
- Recoding Variables
- Binning
- Optimal Binning
- Chapter 9: Computing New Variables
- Calculating a New Variable with a Formula
- Calculating a New Variable with a Condition
- Using System Variables
- Contrasting $Sysmis with SYSMIS
- Understanding Missing Data in Formulas
- Efficiently Calculating with Multiple Formulas
- Chapter 10: Some Useful Functions
- The LENGTH Function
- The ANY Function
- The MEAN Function and Missing Data
- RND, TRUNC, and MOD
- Logicals, the MISSING Function, and the NOT Function
- String Parsing and Nesting Functions
- Calculating Lags
- Chapter 11: Combining Files
- Merging Files by Adding Cases
- Merging Files by Adding Variables
- Part 4: Graphing Data
- Part 5: Analyzing Data
- Chapter 14: Using Descriptive Statistics
- Looking at Levels of Measurement
- Focusing on Frequencies for Categorical Variables
- Understanding Frequencies for Continuous Variables
- Summarizing Continuous Variables with the Descriptives Procedure
- Chapter 15: Knowing When Not to Trust Your Data
- Sampling
- Understanding Sample Size
- Testing Hypotheses
- Calculating Confidence Intervals
- Conducting In-Depth Hypothesis Testing
- Using the Normal Distribution
- Working with Z-Scores
- Chapter 16: Testing One Group
- Conducting Inferential Tests
- Running the Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Test
- Running the One-Sample T-Test Procedure
- Chapter 17: Showing Relationships between Categorical Variables
- Running the Crosstabs Procedure
- Running the Chi-Square Test of Independence
- Comparing Column Proportions
- Adding Control Variables
- Creating a Clustered Bar Chart
- Chapter 18: Showing Relationships between Continuous Dependent and Categorical Independent Variables
- Conducting Inferential Tests
- Using the Compare Means Dialog
- Running the Independent-Samples T-Test Procedure
- Comparing the Means Graphically
- Running the Summary Independent-Samples T-Test Procedure
- Running the Paired-Samples T-Test Procedure
- Chapter 19: Showing Relationships between Continuous Variables
- Viewing Relationships
- Running the Bivariate Procedure
- Running the Simple Linear Regression Procedure
- Part 6: Getting More Advanced with Analyzing Data
- Chapter 20: Doing More Advanced Analyses
- Running the One-Way ANOVA Procedure
- Conducting Post Hoc Tests
- Comparing Means Graphically
- Running the Multiple Linear Regression Procedure
- Viewing Relationships
- Chapter 21: What Is Normal Anyway?
- Understanding Nonparametric Tests
- Understanding Distributions
- Running a Nonparametric Independent Samples Test
- Running a Nonparametric Related Samples Test
- Chapter 22: When to Do What
- Determining Which Statistical Test to Perform
- Using Advanced Techniques
- Part 7: Making SPSS Your Own
- Chapter 23: Changing Settings
- General Options
- Language Options
- Viewer Options
- Data Options
- Currency Options
- Output Options
- Chart Options
- Pivot Tables Options
- File Locations Options
- Scripts Options
- Multiple Imputations Options
- Syntax Editor Options
- Privacy Options
- Chapter 24: Editing Charts and Chart Templates
- Changing and Editing Axes
- Changing Style: Lines and Symbols
- Applying Templates
- Chapter 25: Editing Tables
- Working with TableLooks
- Style Output
- Pivoting Trays
- Part 8: Programming SPSS with Command Syntax
- Chapter 26: Getting Acquainted with Syntax
- Pasting
- Performing a Series of Related Compute Statements
- Labeling
- Repeatedly Generating the Same Report
- Chapter 27: Adding Syntax to Your Toolkit
- Your Wish Is My Command
- Understanding Keywords
- Declaring Data
- Commenting Your Way to Clarity
- Running Your Code
- Controlling Flow and Executing Conditionals
- Part 9: The Part of Tens
- Chapter 28: Ten (or So) Modules You Can Add to SPSS
- The Advanced Statistics Module
- The Custom Tables Module
- The Regression Module
- The Categories Module
- The Data Preparation Module
- The Decision Trees Module
- The Forecasting Module
- The Missing Values Module
- The Bootstrapping Module
- The Complex Samples Module
- The Conjoint Module
- The Direct Marketing Module
- The Exact Tests Module
- The Neural Networks Module
- Chapter 29: Ten Useful SPSS Resources
- Supporting Websites for This Book
- LinkedIn and LinkedIn Groups
- IBM SPSS Statistics Certification
- IBM Data Science Community
- SPSSX-L
- Online Videos
- Live Instruction
- Asynchronous Instruction and Tutorials
- SPSS Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization
- Chapter 30: Ten SPSS Statistics Gotchas
- Failing to Declare Level of Measurement
- Conflating String Values with Labels
- Failing to Declare Missing Data
- Failing to Find Add-On Modules and Plug-Ins
- Failing to Meet Statistical and Software Assumptions
- Confusing Pasting Syntax with Copy and Paste
- Thinking You Create Variables in SPSS as You Do in Excel
- Getting Confused by Listwise Deletion
- Losing Track of Your Active Dataset
- Forgetting to Turn Off Select and Split and Weight
- Index
- About the Authors
- Connect with Dummies
- End User License Agreement
Part 5
Analyzing Data
IN THIS PART …
Summarize variables.
Perform hypothesis testing.
Compare one group to the norm.
Create crosstabulations.
Get comfortable comparing groups.
Assess relationships.
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