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Statistics for research : with a guide to SPSS / George Argyrous.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Los Angeles : SAGE, c2011.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xx, 585 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781849205948 (hbk.)
  • 1849205949 (hbk.)
  • 1849205957 (pbk.)
  • 9781849205955 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.5 22
LOC classification:
  • HA29 .A688 2011
Contents:
Pt. 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL ANALYSIS. Variables and Their Measurement -- Setting up an SPSS Data File -- Pt. 2. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: GRAPHS AND TABLES. The Graphical Description of Data -- The Tabular Description of Data -- Using Tables to Investigate the Relationship between Variables: Crosstabulations -- Measures of Association for Crosstabulations: Nominal Data -- Measures of Association for Crosstabulations: Ranked Data -- Multivariate Analysis of Crosstabs: Elaboration -- Pt. 3. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: NUMERICAL MEASURES. Measures of Central Tendency -- Measures of Dispersion - - The Normal Curve - - Correlation and Regression - - Multiple Regression - - Pt. 4. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: TESTS FOR A MEAN. Sampling Distributions -- Introduction to Hypothesis Testing and the One-Sample Z-Test for a Mean -- The One-Sample T-Test for a Mean -- Inference Using Estimation and Confidence Intervals -- The Two-Samples T-Test for the Equality of Means -- The F-Test for the Equality of More Than Two Means: Analysis of Variance -- The Two Dependent Samples T-Test for the Mean Difference -- Pt. 5. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: TESTS FOR FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS. One-Sample Tests for a Binomial Distribution -- One-Sample Tests for a Multinomial Distribution -- The Chi-Square Test for Independence -- Frequency Tests for Two Dependent Samples -- Pt. 6. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: OTHER TESTS OF SIGNIFICANCE. Rank-Order Tests for Two or More Samples -- The T-Test for a Correlation Coefficient -- Pt. 7. ADVANCED TOPICS. Statistical Power -- Generating New Variables in SPSS: The Recode, Compute and Multiple Response Commands.
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Previous ed.: 2005.

Includes index.

Pt. 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL ANALYSIS. Variables and Their Measurement -- Setting up an SPSS Data File -- Pt. 2. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: GRAPHS AND TABLES. The Graphical Description of Data -- The Tabular Description of Data -- Using Tables to Investigate the Relationship between Variables: Crosstabulations -- Measures of Association for Crosstabulations: Nominal Data -- Measures of Association for Crosstabulations: Ranked Data -- Multivariate Analysis of Crosstabs: Elaboration -- Pt. 3. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: NUMERICAL MEASURES. Measures of Central Tendency -- Measures of Dispersion - - The Normal Curve - - Correlation and Regression - - Multiple Regression - - Pt. 4. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: TESTS FOR A MEAN. Sampling Distributions -- Introduction to Hypothesis Testing and the One-Sample Z-Test for a Mean -- The One-Sample T-Test for a Mean -- Inference Using Estimation and Confidence Intervals -- The Two-Samples T-Test for the Equality of Means -- The F-Test for the Equality of More Than Two Means: Analysis of Variance -- The Two Dependent Samples T-Test for the Mean Difference -- Pt. 5. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: TESTS FOR FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS. One-Sample Tests for a Binomial Distribution -- One-Sample Tests for a Multinomial Distribution -- The Chi-Square Test for Independence -- Frequency Tests for Two Dependent Samples -- Pt. 6. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: OTHER TESTS OF SIGNIFICANCE. Rank-Order Tests for Two or More Samples -- The T-Test for a Correlation Coefficient -- Pt. 7. ADVANCED TOPICS. Statistical Power -- Generating New Variables in SPSS: The Recode, Compute and Multiple Response Commands.

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