The guide helps students prepare for examinations and course material for learning to use IBM's statistics software package SPSS in the behavioral sciences. It covers introduction and descriptive statistics; probability and the foundations of inferential statistics; making inferences about one or two means; making inferences about the variability of two or more means; and making inferences about patterns, frequencies, and ordinal data. Each chapter presents learning objectives, formulas, tips and cautions, key term word searches and crossword puzzles, practice quizzes, and exercises in SPSS. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
The Student Study Guide With SPSS Workbook for Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition includes a review of chapter learning objectives, chapter outlines and key terms, essential statistical formulas, special tips and insights for students, and chapter summaries. To help students practice skills, the guide offers word searches and crossword puzzles for each chapter, extensive practice quizzes linked to chapter learning objectives, and SPSS in Focus exercises which complement those in the book.
How to Use This Study Guide |
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PART I INTRODUCTION AND DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS |
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1 Introduction to Statistics |
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2 Summarizing Data: Frequency Distributions in Tables and Graphs |
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3 Summarizing Data: Central Tendency |
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4 Summarizing Data: Variability |
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PART II PROBABILITY AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF INFERENTIAL STATISTICS |
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6 Probability, Normal Distributions, and Z Scores |
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7 Probability and Sampling Distributions |
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PART III MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT ONE OR TWO MEANS |
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8 Hypothesis Testing: Significance, Effect Size, and Power |
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9 Testing Means: One-Sample and Two-Independent-Sample T Tests |
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10 Testing Means: The Related-Samples T Test |
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11 Estimation and Confidence Intervals |
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PART IV MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT THE VARIABILITY OF TWO OR MORE MEANS |
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12 Analysis of Variance: One-Way Between-Subjects Design |
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13 Analysis of Variance: One-Way Within-Subjects (Repeated-Measures) Design |
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14 Analysis of Variance: Two-Way Between-Subjects Factorial Design |
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PART V MAKING INFERENCES ABOUT PATTERNS, FREQUENCIES, AND ORDINAL DATA |
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16 Linear Regression and Multiple Regression |
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17 Nonparametric Tests: Chi-Square Tests |
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18 Nonparametric Tests: Tests for Ordinal Data |
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Appendix: General Instruction Guidebook for Using SPSS |
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Answers to Key Term Word Searches and Crossword Puzzles |
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Answers to Practice Quizzes |
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Statistical Tables |
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Decision Trees |
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References |
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