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Tables of Contents for The Spss Guide to the New Statistical Analysis of Data
Chapter/Section Title
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Part I: Introduction
1
26
Chapter 1 The Nature of SPSS
3
24
1.1 Getting Started with SPSS for Windows
3
4
1.2 Managing Data and Files
7
8
1.3 Transforming Variables and Data Files
15
8
1.4 Examining and Printing Output
23
1
1.5 Missing Values
24
1
Chapter Exercises
25
2
Part II: Descriptive Statistics
27
62
Chapter 2 Organization of Data
29
12
2.2 Organization of Categorical Data
29
4
2.3 Organization of Numerical Data
33
6
Chapter Exercises
39
1
Appendix II: SPSS Syntax for Organization of Data
40
1
Chapter 3 Measures of Location
41
10
3.1 The Mode
41
2
3.2 The Median and Other Percentiles
43
1
3.3 The Mean
44
4
Chapter Exercises
48
2
Appendix III: SPSS Syntax for Measures of Location
50
1
Chapter 4 Measures of Variability
51
8
4.1 Ranges
51
1
4.2 The Mean Deviation
52
1
4.3 The Standard Deviation
53
1
4.5 Some Uses of Location and Dispersion Measures Together
54
2
Chapter Exercises
56
2
Appendix IV: SPSS Syntax for Measures of Variability
58
1
Chapter 5 Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Numerical Variables
59
14
5.1 Association of Two Numerical Variables
59
8
5.2 More than Two Variables
67
1
Chapter Exercises
68
3
Appendix V: SPSS Syntax for Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Numerical Variables
71
2
Chapter 6 Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Categorical Variables
73
16
6.1 Two-by-Two Frequency Tables
73
4
6.2 Larger Two-Way Frequency Tables
77
2
6.3 Three Categorical Variables
79
4
6.4 Effects of a Third Variable
83
3
Chapter Exercises
86
2
Appendix VI: SPSS Syntax for Summarizing Multivariate Data: Association Between Categorical Variables
88
1
Part III: Probability
89
16
Chapter 7 Basic Ideas of Probability
91
4
7.3 Probability in Terms of Equally Likely Cases
91
2
7.8 Random Sampling; Random Numbers
93
1
Chapter Exercises
93
1
Appendix VII: SPSS Syntax for Basic Ideas of Probability
94
1
Chapter 8 Probability Distributions
95
4
8.5 Family of Standard Normal Distributions
95
2
Chapter Exercises
97
1
Appendix VIII: SPSS Syntax for Probability Distributions
98
1
Chapter 9 Sampling Distributions
99
6
9.1 Sampling from a Population
99
1
9.2 Sampling Distribution of a Sum and of a Mean
100
1
9.5 The Normal Distribution of Sample Means
101
2
Chapter Exercises
103
2
Part IV: Statistical Inference
105
46
Chapter 10 Using a Sample to Estimate Characteristics of One Population
107
10
10.1 Estimation of a Mean by a Single Number
107
2
10.2 Estimation of Variance and Standard Deviation
109
1
10.3 An Interval of Plausible Values for a Mean
109
3
10.4 Estimation of a Proportion
112
1
10.5 Estimation of a Median
112
1
10.6 Paired Measurements
113
1
Chapter Exercises
114
1
Appendix X: SPSS Syntax for Using a Sample to Estimate Characteristics of One Population
115
2
Chapter 11 Answering Questions About Population Characteristics
117
16
11.1 Testing a Hypothesis About a Mean
117
2
11.3 Testing Hypotheses About a Mean when the Standard Deviation is Unknown
119
2
11.4 P Values: Another Way to Report Tests of Significance
121
1
11.5 Testing Hypotheses About a Proportion
122
2
11.6 Testing Hypotheses About a Median: The Sign Test
124
2
11.7 Paired Measurements
126
3
Chapter Exercises
129
2
Appendix XI: SPSS Syntax for Answering Questions About Population Characteristics
131
2
Chapter 12 Differences Between Two Populations
133
12
12.1 Comparison of Two Independent Sample Means when the Population Standard Deviations are Known
133
1
12.2 Comparison of Two Independent Sample Means when the Population Standard Deviations are Unknown but Treated as Equal
134
3
12.3 Comparison of Two Independent Sample Means when the Population Standard Deviations are Unknown and not Treated as Equal
137
1
12.4 Comparison of Two Independent Sample Proportions
137
2
12.5 The Sign Test for a Difference in Locations
139
2
Chapter Exercises
141
2
Appendix XII: SPSS Syntax for Differences Between Two Populations
143
2
Chapter 13 Variability in One Population and in Two Populations
145
6
13.1 Variability in One Population
145
1
13.2 Variability in Two Populations
146
2
Chapter Exercises
148
1
Appendix XIII: SPSS Syntax for Variability in One Population and in Two Populations
149
2
Part V Statistical Methods for Other Problems
151
44
Chapter 14 Inference on Categorical Data
153
14
14.1 Tests of Goodness of Fit
153
3
14.2 Chi-Square Tests of Independence
156
2
14.3 Measures of Association
158
4
Chapter Exercises
162
3
Appendix XIV: SPSS Syntax for Inference on Categorical Data
165
2
Chapter 15 Simple Regression Analysis
167
16
15.1 The Scatter Plot and Correlation Coefficient
167
2
15.2 SPSS for Simple Regression Analysis
169
6
15.3 Another Example: Inverse Association of x and y
175
5
Chapter Exercises
180
1
Appendix XV: SPSS Syntax for Simple Regression Analysis
181
2
Chapter 16 Comparisons of Several Populations
183
12
16.1 One-Way Analysis of Variance
183
5
16.2 Which Groups Differ from Which, and by How Much?
188
2
16.3 Analysis of Variance of Ranks
190
2
Chapter Exercises
192
2
Appendix XVI: SPSS Syntax for Comparisons of Several Populations
194
1
Appendix Data Files
195