Performing Data Analysis Using IBM SPSS

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PERFORMING DATA ANALYSIS USING IBM SPSS®; CONTENTS; PREFACE; PART 1 GETTING STARTED WITH IBM SPSS®; CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO IBM SPSS®; 1.1 WHAT IS IBM SPSS?; 1.2 BRIEF HISTORY; 1.3 TYPES OF IBM SPSS FILES AND FILE NAME EXTENSIONS; CHAPTER 2 ENTERING DATA IN IBM SPSS; 2.1 THE STARTING POINT; 2.2 THE TWO TYPES OF DISPLAYS; 2.3 A SAMPLE DATA SET; 2.4 THE VARIABLE VIEW DISPLAY; 2.5 ENTERING SPECIFICATIONS IN THE VARIABLE VIEW DISPLAY; 2.6 SAVING THE DATA FILE; 2.7 ENTERING SPECIFICATIONS IN THE DATA VIEW DISPLAY; CHAPTER 3 IMPORTING DATA FROM EXCEL TO IBM SPSS®; 3.1 THE STARTING POINT. 3.2 THE IMPORTING PROCESSPART 2 OBTAINING, EDITING, AND SAVING STATISTICAL OUTPUT; CHAPTER 4 PERFORMING STATISTICAL PROCEDURES IN IBM SPSS®; 4.1 OVERVIEW; 4.2 USING DIALOG WINDOWS TO SETUP THE ANALYSIS; 4.3 THE OUTPUT; CHAPTER 5 EDITING OUTPUT; 5.1 OVERVIEW; 5.2 CHANGING THE WORDING OF A COLUMN HEADING; 5.3 CHANGING THE WIDTH OF A COLUMN; 5.4 VIEWING MORE DECIMAL VALUES; 5.5 EDITING TEXT IN IBM SPSS OUTPUT FILES; CHAPTER 6 SAVING AND COPYING OUTPUT; 6.1 OVERVIEW; 6.2 SAVING AN OUTPUT FILE AS AN IBM SPSS OUTPUT FILE; 6.3 SAVING AN OUTPUT FILE IN OTHER FORMATS. 6.4 USING OPERATING SYSTEM UTILITIES TO COPY AN IBM SPSS TABLE TO A WORD PROCESSING DOCUMENT6.5 USING THE COPY AND PASTE FUNCTIONS TO COPY AN IBM SPSS OUTPUT TABLE TO AWORD PROCESSING DOCUMENT; PART 3 MANIPULATING DATA; CHAPTER 7 SORTING AND SELECTING CASES; 7.1 OVERVIEW; 7.2 SORTING CASES; 7.3 SELECTING CASES; CHAPTER 8 SPLITTING DATA FILES; 8.1 OVERVIEW; 8.2 THE GENERAL SPLITTING PROCESS; 8.3 THE PROCEDURE TO SPLIT THE DATA FILE; 8.4 THE DATA FILE AFTER THE SPLIT; 8.5 STATISTICAL ANALYSES UNDER SPLIT FILE; 8.6 RESETTING THE DATA FILE; CHAPTER 9 MERGING DATA FROM SEPARATE FILES. 9.1 OVERVIEW9.2 ADDING CASES; 9.3 ADDING VARIABLES; PART 4 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS PROCEDURES; CHAPTER 10 FREQUENCIES; 10.1 OVERVIEW; 10.2 NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; 10.3 ANALYSIS SETUP: CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; 10.4 ANALYSIS OUTPUT: CATEGORICAL VARIABLES; 10.5 ANALYSIS SETUP: QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES; 10.6 ANALYSIS OUTPUT: QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES; CHAPTER 11 DESCRIPTIVES; 11.1 OVERVIEW; 11.2 NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; 11.3 ANALYSIS SETUP; 11.4 ANALYSIS OUTPUT; CHAPTER 12 EXPLORE; 12.1 OVERVIEW; 12.2 NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; 12.3 ANALYSIS SETUP; 12.4 ANALYSIS OUTPUT; PART 5 SIMPLE DATA TRANSFORMATIONS. CHAPTER 13 STANDARDIZING VARIABLES TO Z SCORES13.1 OVERVIEW; 13.2 NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; 13.3 ANALYSIS SETUP; 13.4 ANALYSIS OUTPUT; 13.5 DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS ON ZNEONEURO; 13.6 OTHER STANDARD SCORES; CHAPTER 14 RECODING VARIABLES; 14.1 OVERVIEW; 14.2 NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; 14.3 ANALYSIS STRATEGY; 14.4 FREQUENCIES ANALYSIS; 14.5 RECODING AN ORIGINAL VARIABLE USING RANGES; 14.6 THE RESULTS OF THE RECODING; 14.7 RECODING AN ORIGINAL VARIABLE USING INDIVIDUAL VALUES; CHAPTER 15 VISUAL BINNING; 15.1 OVERVIEW; 15.2 NUMERICAL EXAMPLE; 15.3 ANALYSIS SETUP; CHAPTER 16 COMPUTING NEW VARIABLES. This book is designed to be a user's guide for students and other interested readers to perform statistical data analysis with IBM SPSS, which is a major statistical software package used extensively in academic, government, and business settings. This book addresses the needs, level of sophistication, and interest in introductory statistical methodology on the part of undergraduate and graduate students in social and behavioral science, business, health-related, and education programs. Each chapter covers a particular statistical procedure and has the following format: an example pr.