Publisher's Synopsis
Using SPSS effectively is about student confidence. With "Introduction to SPSS in Psychology", students will quickly master statistical analysis with SPSS. Screenshots of all of the steps for each statistical technique give students that crucial confidence that they are on top of their analysis. Key features of the output are highlighted graphically and explained. Models of how to report the findings are provided for all techniques. "Introduction to SPSS in Psychology" is designed for use with SPSS12 and 13, but is just as effective with SPSS 10 and 11. It presents to students, beginners as well as more advanced students, an excellent, uncluttered, hands-on guide to the most common statistical package for psychologists. "Introduction to SPSS in Psychology" can be used alone or to complement the authors' "Introduction to Research Methods in Psychology" and "Introduction to Statistics in Psychology", also published by Prentice Hall.;The key features include: a full range of statistics are covered, from the simplest to the advanced, all with equal clarity; explains the practical application of statistics to data; explains step-by-step how to enter, analyse, interpret and report data; gives detail about what to report and how to report it; and Web based supplementary material is available. Dennis Howitt and Duncan Cramer are both Readers in Psychology at Loughborough University.
