SPSS 16.0 Brief Guide
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| Rating | : | 4.58 (612 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0136036015 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 217 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The SPSS 16.0 Brief Guide provides a set of tutorials to acquaint you with the components of the SPSS system. Topics include reading data, using the Data Editor, examining summary statistics for individual variables, working with output, creating and editing charts, working with syntax, modifying data values, sorting and selecting data, and performing additional statistical procedures.
"A great value on a guide to an indisensable software product--SPSS" according to Richard H. K. Bloom. Everyone in the biological and behavioral sciences uses SPSS statistical analysis software to crunch numbers in their field. SPSS has been around for nearly twenty years and is not much changed from year to year; if it were, hundreds of thousands of experienced users would have to learn it all over again and the software would grow unpopular. I bought this guide to last year's edition 16.0 for a pittance. If I learned best through reading a text, this text would be more than adequate, since it features pictures illustrating the program's step. "Good in conjuntion with a class" according to J.J.. If you are even looking at this book, then you probably are resigned to the fact that you are going to use SPSS in some capacity. This book is nice as it walks you through many of the features in the SPSS software package with screen-shots. Of course, it is set up for a PC user, which I am not, so not everything jives perfectly, but it doesn't degrade from the instruction. My only comment for buyers, is that as the title implies, it is a brief guide on how to use the software. Also, if you don't already know basic / intermediate statistics, t. Very upset I purchased this product with the belief that it would come with the software but it didn't.What is the use having the book without the software to use it?I am really upset about this purchase!