| List of Tables and Figures | p. xi |
| Preface & Acknowledgments | p. xxi |
| About the Authors | p. xxiii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Getting the Most Out of IBM SPSS by Example | p. 2 |
| A Brief Overview of the Statistical Process | p. 3 |
| Understanding Hypothesis Testing, Power, and Sample Size | p. 5 |
| Understanding the p-Value | p. 9 |
| Planning a Successful Analysis | p. 10 |
| Guidelines for Creating Data Sets | p. 12 |
| Preparing Excel Data for Import | p. 17 |
| Guidelines for Reporting Results | p. 18 |
| Downloading Sample SPSS Data Files | p. 19 |
| Opening Data Files for Examples | p. 19 |
| Describing and Examining Data | p. 21 |
| Example Data Files | p. 22 |
| Describing Quantitative Data | p. 22 |
| Describing Categorical Data | p. 35 |
| Creating and Using Graphs | p. 49 |
| Introduction to SPSS Graphs | p. 49 |
| Guidelines for Creating and Using Graphs | p. 49 |
| Chart Builder | p. 50 |
| Graphboard Template Chooser | p. 51 |
| Legacy Plots | p. 51 |
| Scatterplots | p. 52 |
| Histograms | p. 62 |
| Bar Charts | p. 66 |
| Pie Charts | p. 70 |
| Boxplots | p. 72 |
| Comparing One or Two Means Using the t-Test | p. 75 |
| One-Sample t-Test | p. 75 |
| Two-Sample t-Test | p. 82 |
| Paired t-Test | p. 100 |
| Correlation and Regression | p. 109 |
| Correlation Analysis | p. 109 |
| Simple Linear Regression | p. 119 |
| Multiple Linear Regression | p. 129 |
| Analysis of Categorical Data | p. 145 |
| Contingency Table Analysis (r x c) | p. 146 |
| McNemar's Test | p. 164 |
| Mantel-Haenszel Comparison | p. 168 |
| Tests of Interrater Reliability | p. 173 |
| Goodness-of-Fit Test | p. 177 |
| Other Measures of Association for Categorical Data | p. 182 |
| Analysts of Variance and Covariance | p. 185 |
| One-Way ANOVA | p. 185 |
| Two-Way Analysis of Variance | p. 203 |
| Repeated-Measures Analysis of Variance | p. 212 |
| Analysis of Covariance | p. 221 |
| Nonparametric Analysis Procedures | p. 231 |
| Spearman's Rho | p. 232 |
| Mann-Whitney-Wilcoxon (Two Independent Groups Test) | p. 236 |
| Kruskal-Wallis Test | p. 239 |
| Sign Test and Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test for Matched Pairs | p. 243 |
| Friedman's Test | p. 248 |
| Logistic Regression | p. 253 |
| Introduction to Logistic Regression | p. 253 |
| Simple Logistic Regression | p. 254 |
| Multiple Logistic Regression | p. 260 |
| Factor Analysis | p. 271 |
| Appropriate Applications for a Factor Analysis | p. 272 |
| Design Considerations for Factor Analysis | p. 273 |
| Hypotheses for Factor Analysis | p. 274 |
| Factor Analysis/Dimension Reduction | p. 274 |
| A Brief Tutorial for Using IBM Spss for Windows | p. 295 |
| Choosing the Right Procedure to Use | p. 321 |
| Index | p. 325 |
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