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Statistics for Research: With a Guide to SPSS

Statistics for Research: With a Guide to SPSS


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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! The new edition features: - Clear explanations of all the main techniques of statistical analysis - A brand new student-friendly, easy-to-navigate design - Even more step-by-step screenshots of SPSS commands and outputs - An extensive glossary of terms, ideal for those new to statistics - End of chapter exercises to help you put your learning into practice - A new, fully updated companion website (www.uk.sagepub.com/argyrous3) with comprehensive student and lecturer resources including additional, discipline specific examples and online readings and WebCT/Blackboard quizzes. This is the ideal textbook for any course in statistical methods across the health and social sciences and a perfect starter book for students, researchers and professionals alike.

Table of Contents:
PART ONE: AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL ANALYSIS Variables and Their Measurement Setting up an SPSS Data File PART TWO: 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 PART THREE: DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: NUMERICAL MEASURES Measures of Central Tendency Measures of Dispersion The Normal Curve Correlation and Regression Multiple Regression PART FOUR: 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 PART FIVE: 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 PART SIX: INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: OTHER TESTS OF SIGNIFICANCE Rank-Order Tests for Two or More Samples The t-Test for a Correlation Coefficient PART SEVEN: ADVANCED TOPICS Statistical Power Generating New Variables in SPSS: The Recode, Compute and Multiple Response Commands

About the Author :
George Argyrous is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Science and Policy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

Review :
George Argyrous’ book is an invaluable resource to students taking introductory methods courses where SPSS is used, and I had much success and positive feedback when I included it on the syllabi of my quantitative methods and political analysis courses. It is a strong text for instructors who need an engaging textbook that covers the topics that constitute the core elements of undergraduate and postgraduate quantitative methods courses in the social sciences. A particular strength of this book is that it combines readable text on the basics of research design and quantitative methods with clear instructions on how to implement the material using the SPSS software program Thomas J. Scotto, Lecturer, Department of Government, University of Essex Statistics for Research: with a Guide to SPSS explains how to use some of the most common statistical tests using example relevant to the types of analyses undertaken by a wide range of social science researchers. The accompanying explanations of how to both undertake the tests using SPSS, and report the results appropriately, make the guide a comprehensive and ideal companion for researchers particularly those who are new to, or use quantitative methods infrequently Jane Wellens University of Nottingham The book is an excellent general statistics text, with the key advantage of using SPSS to illustrate the concepts. The book would be a good text for undergraduate students on a range of social science courses or postgraduate students taking Foundation Research Methods Steve Strand University of Warwick, British Journal of Educational Psychology This is a book that I wish I′d had on two occasions in my life; the first when I started statistics as a psychology undergraduate and the second, many years later, when I embarked upon a research degree in councelling and psychology. The author provides a logical introduction to applied statistics and research methodology, clearly and carefully linking the two. After demonstrating each relevant statistical technique ′by hand′, using well-chosen examples from both the health and the social sciences, he then demonstrates how it can be carried out using SPSS... The book is accompanied by a companion website which provides valuable additional material both for the student and the lecturer. I can thoroughly recommend this book. Clive Sims Methodspace


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781849205955
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 232 mm
  • No of Pages: 608
  • Sub Title: With a Guide to SPSS
  • Width: 186 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1849205957
  • Publisher Date: 13 Jan 2011
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 1078 gr


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