Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- About This Book -- About the Fourth Edition -- Foolish Assumptions -- Icons Used in This Book -- Beyond the Book -- Where to Go from Here -- Part 1 Getting Started with SPSS -- Chapter 1 Introducing SPSS -- SPSS's Job, Our Job, and Your Job -- SPSS's job -- Our job -- Your job -- Garbage In, Garbage Out: Recognizing the Importance of Good Data -- Talking to SPSS: Can You Hear Me Now? -- The graphical user interface -- Syntax -- Programmability -- How SPSS works -- Getting Help When You Need It -- Chapter 2 Finding the Best SPSS for You -- Campus Editions -- Subscription Plans -- Commercial Editions -- What's New in Version 27 -- Chapter 3 Getting to Know SPSS by Running a Simple Session -- Opening a Dataset -- Running an Analysis -- Interpreting Results -- Creating Graphs -- Investigating Data -- Part 2 Getting Data into and out of SPSS -- Chapter 4 Understanding SPSS Data: Defining Metadata -- Entering Variable Definitions on the Variable View Tab -- Name -- Type -- Width -- Decimals -- Label -- Values -- Missing -- Columns -- Align -- Measure -- Role -- Entering and Viewing Data Items on the Data View Tab -- Chapter 5 Opening Data Files -- Getting Acquainted with the SPSS File Format -- Reading Simple Data from a Text File -- Transferring Data from Another Program -- Reading an Excel file -- Reading from an unknown program type -- Saving Data -- Chapter 6 Getting Data and Results from SPSS -- Exporting Data to Another Program -- Navigating SPSS Statistics Viewer -- Moving SPSS Output to Other Applications -- Copying and pasting output -- Exporting output -- Printing Data -- Chapter 7 More about Defining Your Data -- Working with Dates and Times -- Using the Date and Time Wizard -- Creating and Using a Multiple-Response Set -- Copying Data Properties.

Part 3 Messing with Data in SPSS -- Chapter 8 The Transform and Data Menus -- Sorting Cases -- Selecting the Data You Want to Look At -- Splitting Data for Easier Analysis -- Counting Case Occurrences -- Recoding Variables -- Recoding into different variables -- Automatic recoding -- Binning -- Optimal Binning -- Chapter 9 Computing New Variables -- Calculating a New Variable with a Formula -- Calculating a New Variable with a Condition -- Using System Variables -- Contrasting Sysmis with SYSMIS -- Understanding Missing Data in Formulas -- Efficiently Calculating with Multiple Formulas -- Chapter 10 Some Useful Functions -- The LENGTH Function -- The ANY Function -- The MEAN Function and Missing Data -- RND, TRUNC, and MOD -- Logicals, the MISSING Function, and the NOT Function -- String Parsing and Nesting Functions -- Calculating Lags -- Chapter 11 Combining Files -- Merging Files by Adding Cases -- Merging Files by Adding Variables -- Part 4 Graphing Data -- Chapter 12 On the Menu: Graphing Choices in SPSS -- Building Graphs the Chart Builder Way -- The Gallery tab -- The Basic Elements tab -- The Groups/Point ID tab -- The Titles/Footnotes tab -- The Element Properties tab -- The Chart Appearance tab -- The Options tab -- Building Graphs with Graphboard Template Chooser -- Chapter 13 Building Graphs Using Chart Builder -- Simple Graphs -- Simple scatterplots -- Simple dot plots -- Simple bar graphs -- Simple error bars -- Simple histograms -- Population pyramids -- Stacked area charts -- Fancy Graphs -- Charts with multiple lines -- Colored scatterplots -- Scatterplot matrices -- Stacked bar charts -- Pie charts -- Clustered range bar graphs -- Differenced area graphs -- Dual-axis graph -- Fancy Maps Using Graphboard Template Chooser -- Heat map -- Choropleth of values -- Coordinates on a reference map -- Part 5 Analyzing Data.

Chapter 14 Using Descriptive Statistics -- Looking at Levels of Measurement -- Defining the four levels of measurement -- Defining summary statistics -- Focusing on Frequencies for Categorical Variables -- Understanding Frequencies for Continuous Variables -- Summarizing Continuous Variables with the Descriptives Procedure -- Chapter 15 Knowing When Not to Trust Your Data -- Sampling -- Understanding Sample Size -- Testing Hypotheses -- Calculating Confidence Intervals -- Conducting In-Depth Hypothesis Testing -- Using the Normal Distribution -- Working with Z-Scores -- Chapter 16 Testing One Group -- Conducting Inferential Tests -- Running the Chi-Square Goodness of Fit Test -- Running the One-Sample T-Test Procedure -- Chapter 17 Showing Relationships between Categorical Variables -- Running the Crosstabs Procedure -- Running the Chi-Square Test of Independence -- Comparing Column Proportions -- Adding Control Variables -- Creating a Clustered Bar Chart -- Chapter 18 Showing Relationships between Continuous Dependent and Categorical Independent Variables -- Conducting Inferential Tests -- Using the Compare Means Dialog -- Running the Independent-Samples T-Test Procedure -- Comparing the Means Graphically -- Running the Summary Independent-Samples T-Test Procedure -- Running the Paired-Samples T-Test Procedure -- Chapter 19 Showing Relationships between Continuous Variables -- Viewing Relationships -- Running the Bivariate Procedure -- Running the Simple Linear Regression Procedure -- Part 6 Getting More Advanced with Analyzing Data -- Chapter 20 Doing More Advanced Analyses -- Running the One-Way ANOVA Procedure -- Conducting Post Hoc Tests -- Comparing Means Graphically -- Running the Multiple Linear Regression Procedure -- Viewing Relationships -- Chapter 21 What Is Normal Anyway? -- Understanding Nonparametric Tests.

Understanding Distributions -- Running a Nonparametric Independent Samples Test -- Running a Nonparametric Related Samples Test -- Chapter 22 When to Do What -- Determining Which Statistical Test to Perform -- Using Advanced Techniques -- Part 7 Making SPSS Your Own -- Chapter 23 Changing Settings -- General Options -- Language Options -- Viewer Options -- Data Options -- Currency Options -- Output Options -- Chart Options -- Pivot Tables Options -- File Locations Options -- Scripts Options -- Multiple Imputations Options -- Syntax Editor Options -- Privacy Options -- Chapter 24 Editing Charts and Chart Templates -- Changing and Editing Axes -- Changing the axis range -- Scaling the axis range -- Changing Style: Lines and Symbols -- Editing chart lines -- Editing data points -- Applying Templates -- Chapter 25 Editing Tables -- Working with TableLooks -- Style Output -- Pivoting Trays -- Part 8 Programming SPSS with Command Syntax -- Chapter 26 Getting Acquainted with Syntax -- Pasting -- Performing a Series of Related Compute Statements -- Labeling -- Repeatedly Generating the Same Report -- Chapter 27 Adding Syntax to Your Toolkit -- Your Wish Is My Command -- Understanding Keywords -- Declaring Data -- Commenting Your Way to Clarity -- Running Your Code -- Controlling Flow and Executing Conditionals -- IF -- DO IF -- SELECT IF -- Part 9 The Part of Tens -- Chapter 28 Ten (or So) Modules You Can Add to SPSS -- The Advanced Statistics Module -- The Custom Tables Module -- The Regression Module -- The Categories Module -- The Data Preparation Module -- The Decision Trees Module -- The Forecasting Module -- The Missing Values Module -- The Bootstrapping Module -- The Complex Samples Module -- The Conjoint Module -- The Direct Marketing Module -- The Exact Tests Module -- The Neural Networks Module -- Chapter 29 Ten Useful SPSS Resources.

Supporting Websites for This Book -- LinkedIn and LinkedIn Groups -- IBM SPSS Statistics Certification -- IBM Data Science Community -- SPSSX-L -- Online Videos -- Twitter -- Live Instruction -- Asynchronous Instruction and Tutorials -- SPSS Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization -- Chapter 30 Ten SPSS Statistics Gotchas -- Failing to Declare Level of Measurement -- Conflating String Values with Labels -- Failing to Declare Missing Data -- Failing to Find Add-On Modules and Plug-Ins -- Failing to Meet Statistical and Software Assumptions -- Confusing Pasting Syntax with Copy and Paste -- Thinking You Create Variables in SPSS as You Do in Excel -- Getting Confused by Listwise Deletion -- Losing Track of Your Active Dataset -- Forgetting to Turn Off Select and Split and Weight -- Index -- EULA.

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