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Product Identifiers

PublisherSAGE Publications, Incorporated

ISBN-101506341004

ISBN-139781506341002

eBay Product ID (ePID)234238592

Product Key Features

Number of Pages312 Pages

Publication NameIntroductory Statistics Using SPSS

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

SubjectMathematical & Statistical Software, Statistics

TypeTextbook

AuthorHerschel Knapp

Subject AreaComputers, Social Science

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight18.5 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width7.4 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2016-022121

Reviews"I find the videos extremely helpful. Of particular note was the pre-test checklist. This list helps students to understand what criteria need to be met for the test to be used. The directions provided are incredibly detailed and provide ample guidance to students with limited computer skills....Overall, I found this book to be the best of those that I have used or reviewed." , I find the videos extremely helpful. Of particular note was the pre-test check list. This list helps students to understand what criteria need to be met for the test to be used. The directions provided are incredibly detailed and provide ample guidance to students with limited computer skills....Overall, I found this book to be the best of those that I have used or reviewed., This student-friendly text, coupled with an ample number of practice exercises and instructional videos for each chapter, provided my students with the resources to become proficient in using SPSS to perform and interpret the statistical analyses covered in the course. In addition, this text emphasizes and models the written communication of results and conclusions derived from research., "This student-friendly text, coupled with an ample number of practice exercises and instructional videos for each chapter, provided my students with the resources to become proficient in using SPSS to perform and interpret the statistical analyses covered in the course. In addition, this text emphasizes and models the written communication of results and conclusions derived from research." -- Linda Ritchie "I find the videos extremely helpful. Of particular note was the pre-test checklist. This list helps students to understand what criteria need to be met for the test to be used. The directions provided are incredibly detailed and provide ample guidance to students with limited computer skills....Overall, I found this book to be the best of those that I have used or reviewed." -- Christopher Salvatore "This is one of the best introductory SPSS texts on the market. It is easy to read, clear, concise and does not overwhelm the reader with abstract statistical theory. The exercises and examples are good and will be really useful both in class and for homework assignments. The online resources are a great addition and really help in understanding the material in the text." -- Barbra Teater

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal300.28555

SynopsisEach chapter is structured to answer questions that students most want answered: What statistical test should I use for this situation? How do I set up the data? How do I run the test? How do I interpret and document the results? Using examples, screenshots, and intuitive illustrations, students "get the story" from their data and learn by doing, completing practice exercises at the end of each chapter using prepared downloadable datasets. New to this edition: Test) have been added to Chapters 5 - 9 to facilitate more versatile analyses New illustrations help to clarify abstract concepts, such as Treatment/Control groups and various forms of probability and non-probability sampling techniques. Pretest Checklist criteria for each statistical test are now presented in easy-to-read dialogue boxes to help ensure robust statistical processing. Multiple downloadable resources on an accompanying website include prepared SPSS data sets for all examples and exercises (eliminating data entry time and errors) and solutions to all odd-numbered exercises. A combined Pretest Checklist/Run Procedure video allows students to navigate directly to the section of interest to make video study more efficient., Shows students how to properly select, process, and interpret statistics without heavy emphasis on theory, formula derivations, or abstract mathematical concepts, The updated Second Edition of Herschel Knapp's friendly and practical introduction to statistics shows students how to properly select, process, and interpret statistics without heavy emphasis on theory, formula derivations, or abstract mathematical concepts. Each chapter is structured to answer questions that students most want answered: What statistical test should I use for this situation? How do I set up the data? How do I run the test? How do I interpret and document the results? Online tutorial videos, examples, screenshots, and intuitive illustrations help students "get the story" from their data as they learn by doing, completing practice exercises at the end of each chapter using prepared downloadable data sets., This introductory textbook for the social and behavioral sciences shows students how to properly select, process, and interpret statistics without heavy emphasis on theory, formula derivations, or abstract mathematical concepts. Requiring no hand calculations, students learn how to process statistics in SPSS (screenshots from Version 23). Each chapter is structured to answer the following questions that students most want answered: What statistical test should I use for this situation? How do I set up the data? How do I run the test? How do I interpret and document the output? Students learn by doing, with at least 20 practice exercises at the end of each chapter. Video tutorials created by the author on the accompanying website show how to set up the data and run the test in SPSS: because of the wealth of online study materials, this book is the perfect solution for someone wanting to implement a flipped classroom for this course. New to the Second Edition is: a SAGE edge website with additional practice problems a helpful glossary in the back of the book new coverage of logistic regression more figures in the earlier chapters to aid in comprehension additional coverage of non-parametric statistics as alternatives to the parametric statistics covered.

LC Classification NumberHA32.K59 2017