SPSS For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))

SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) is a data management and analysis software that allows users to generate solid, decision-making results by performing statistical analysis This book provides just the information needed: installing the software, entering data, setting up calculations, and analyzing data Covers computing cross tabulation, frequencies, descriptive ratios, means, bivariate and partial correlations, linear regression, and much more Explains how to output information into striking charts and graphs For ambitious users, also covers how to program SPSS to take their statistical analysis to the next level

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SPSS for Dummies
I bought this book because I needed to use SPSS and had no experience with the program. I read Chapter 1 and Chapter 4 to start and this gave me a good basis. Then I read other chapters as questions came up. If you are used to using computers and learning how to do new things on the computer, then this book is perfect for you. Do not get this book if you are looking for a book to tell you when to run which statistics. This book tells you HOW, not WHEN or WHY. I supplemented the book with SPSS Help menu and internet sights for more complex actions like regression. Overall, I would recommend this book!

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Getting started isn't enough, esp. for dummies
I brought this book with the hope that - together with another marketing research theory book - it would help me through my thesis fieldwork.

As it happens, it won't and I'm scouting for my next SPSS book a few weeks after buying this one.

It's well written, and it bridges the gap between the SPSS help and the statistics books. What it doesn't do is explain a bit of stats for dummies, which I think I was reasonable to expect. I can run the software and do a few things with this book. I can't get answers to questions like `if I have to test --- hypotheses, which is the test and what options do I use`.

The book would become really useful if this content was added on.

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Learn statistics FIRST !
This Dummies book will get you introduced to SPSS but will use all sorts of statistics jargon and you are lost unless you've built a solid foundation in statistics previously. Also, it hardly touches on some quite basic yet very useful parts of SPSS (e.g. descriptive statistics>frequencies) ,,. quite odd ! If you're new to both SPSS and statistics this may be a better choice Discovering Statistics Using SPSS (Introducing Statistical Methods)

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The program CD was not included with the book
The book was fine I wish the writing had stated the book did not come with the Program CD; I would not have purchased it.

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very unhappy - CD Rom was MISSING
this book is useless without the CD Rom which was missing. I want a refund. Keven Mosley-Koehler
koehlerk@ewashtenaw.org