Statistics for Research: With a Guide to SPSS, 3rd Edition

This fully updated edition of Statistics for Research explains statistical concepts in a straight-forward and accessible way using practical examples from a variety of disciplines. If you’re looking for an easy-to-read, comprehensive introduction to statistics with a guide to SPSS, this is the book for you!

Table of Contents

Part 1 An introduction to statistical analysis
Chapter 1 Variables and their measurement
Chapter 2 Setting up an SPSS data file

Part 2 Descriptive statistics: Graphs and tables
Chapter 3 The graphical description of data
Chapter 4 The tabular description of data
Chapter 5 Using tables to investigate the relationship between variables: Crosstabulations
Chapter 6 Measures of association for crosstabulations: Nominal data
Chapter 7 Measures of association for crosstabulations: Ranked data
Chapter 8 Multivariate analysis of crosstabs: Elaboration

Part 3 Descriptive statistics: Numerical measures
Chapter 9 Measures of central tendency
Chapter 10 Measures of dispersion
Chapter 11 The normal curve
Chapter 12 Correlation and regression
Chapter 13 Multiple regression

Part 4 Inferential statistics: Tests for a mean
Chapter 14 Sampling distributions
Chapter 15 Introduction to hypothesis testing and the one-sample z-test for a mean
Chapter 16 The one-sample t-test for a mean
Chapter 17 Inference using estimation and confidence intervals
Chapter 18 The two-sample t-test for the equality of means
Chapter 19 The F-test for the equality of more than two means: Analysis of variance
Chapter 20 The two-dependent-samples t-test for the mean difference

Part 5 Inferential statistics: Tests for frequency distributions
Chapter 21 One-sample tests for a binomial distribution
Chapter 22 One-sample tests for a multinomial distribution
Chapter 23 The chi-square test for independence
Chapter 24 Frequency tests for two dependent samples

Part 6 Inferential statistics: Other tests of significance
Chapter 25 Rank-order tests for two or more samples
Chapter 26 The t-test for a correlation coefficient

Part 7 Advanced topics
Chapter 27 Statistical power
Chapter 28 Generating new variables in SPSS: The Recode, Compute, and Multiple Response commands