Publisher's Synopsis
This is a guide to the statistical procedures in SPSS Base 7.5, containing several examples for each procedure, starting with default operations and proceeding to the most commonly-used optional specifications. This text also discusses the assumptions required by each procedure, checking the data for those assumptions, and finding strategies to deal with data which does not meet required assumptions.;The guide focuses mainly on the output, on undrestanding what the staistics mean, and how the different statistics relate to each other. It aims to provide readers with an ability to undrestand the description of the variable or relationship being analyzed. The book is designed to be used with the "SPSS 7.5 User's Guide".