SPSS For Dummies 2nd Edition by Arthur Griffith (PDF)

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The fun and friendly guide to the world’s leading statistical softwarePredictive Analysis Software (PASW), formerly SPSS software, is the leading statistical software used by commerical, government, and academic organizations around the world to solve business and research problems. It allows you to quickly and easily discover new insights from data, test hypotheses, and build powerful predictive models.PASW Statistics For Dummies covers everything you need to know to get up and running with this efficient and practical software.PASW Statistics is the leading statistical software used to analyze data and create predictive models; it is used by business, academic, and government entities worldwideThis guide explains how to work with automatic codebook generation and customize the variable viewWalks you through the rounding method that is used in all calculations and explains using predictive analysisShows how to maximize your use of graph templates, and much moreEven if you have little or no statistical or mathematical background, PASW Statistics For Dummies will show you how to generate statistical support and decision-making information quickly and easily.Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: From the Back Cover Need to analyze some data? SPSS is your statistical friend — let it crunch the numbers!Surprise — this book is not about statistics. It’s about using SPSS to calculate statistics for you! Here are step-by-step procedures you can follow to see how SPSS operates and start using it with your own data. You’ll be able to enter data, produce graphs, use the statistical methods built into SPSS to generate the numbers you need, and much more.Predict the future — use SPSS to identify business risks and opportunitiesLearn your way around — install SPSS and set up the options to serve your needsEnter the data — instruct SPSS to collect data from a database or another file, or type it in yourselfData in, data out — export the results of your analysis for use in a database, Web page, Excel® worksheet, or Word documentGo graphic — create bar graphs, line charts, scatterplots, pie charts, histograms, and othersWelcome to analysis — learn different ways SPSS can crunch numbers and how to get the analysis you’re looking forExtend the possibilities — customize SPSS with Command Syntax or create new scripts with Python®Your greatest asset — protect your data and make regular backupsOpen the book and find:What you can and can’t do with SPSSTypes of graphs and how to use themHow to manually enter dataSuggestions for sorting, identifying, and grouping dataData types and how to use themWhat a scatterplot can show youHow to back up and protect your dataA glossary of SPSS and statistics terms About the Author Arthur Griffith is a former computer consultant for the U.S. Department of Defense. After working for 25 years as a programmer and software development project manager, he became a writer of computer books and has now written 14 of them.

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐I should have read the other reviews more closely. I like the book. It’s been helpful. Amazon delivered it on-time, and it looked like it should have looked, except . . . No CD. I read the other reviews and others have said the CD wasn’t there. OK, I thought that was fine. Trouble is the first time I tried to do one of the exercises in the book, I realized I would have to enter 150 data items. Kind of a hassle. We need the CD or at least a website to download the data from. Here is a time when buying the book from a real bookstore would have helped me avoid this situation.

⭐This book allowed me to teach myself SPSS software with no previous experience. However a major drawback is that the visuals (tables, pictures, etc) are pretty much useless in the Kindle version. The tables are too small to see within the text and if you open them up, they are too blurry to actually read. So you essentially have no visual aids in the kindle version.

⭐This is an excellent how-to guide that sidesteps all of the technical mumbo jumbo. This is an excellent reference book for people, especially students, who need to know how to use SPSS for practical purposes (thesis or dissertation research, preliminary data mining for small businesses) without being computer whizzes.

⭐Excellent source for SPSS student. Arrived in condition as advertised. Happy with book.

⭐great product, Good Price, use it everyday

⭐Excelent book, received in good shape. Very easy to understand when you go through the book. I recommend this book to others not familiar with spss yet.

⭐Great price! Awesome resource!

⭐Gives as much knowledge of SPSS as you’re willing to get from it. Exactly what you expect from the “…for Dummies” titles.

⭐Id heard a lot about Dummies books being good so I thought I’d give this a go seens as I had a report due and was not very good with SPSS. Ow dear… What a waste of my money. The whole book drones on about technical SPSS stuff that most people wont want to know. I only found the first few pages helpful but even than information Id already got/knew.I liked the set out and it seemed easy to follow (well if it actually had helpful information in it).No good for university students like me.

⭐Bought for my daughter studying Clinical Psychology at Uni. Got her through the 1st year statistics exam with flying colours!

⭐Hated having to use this book … hated SPSS. I suppose it is the price you pay for doing research.

⭐Just what I needed to explain the statistics I must use. Easy to understand and put into practice. Will work with this until I have mastered it all.

⭐Very informative

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