Title: SPSS_building SPSS graphs to understand data
Author: James O Aldrich

• Pages:  392 Pages
• Publisher:  SAGE Publications, Inc is an (April 19, 2012)
• Language:  English
• 10-the ISBN:  1452216843
• 13-ISBN:  978-1452216843
  

This book is a must-have for anyone needing to understand large or small amounts of data. It describes how to build and interpret graphs, showing how "understanding data" means that the graph must clearly and succinctly answer questions about the data. In 16 of the 19 chapters research questions are presented, and the reader builds the appropriate graph needed to answer the questions. This handy guide can be used in conjunction with any introductory or intermediate statistics book where the focus is on in-depth presentation of how graphs are used. This book will also useful for graduate students doing research at the masters or doctoral level. The book also contains a chapter designed to address many of the ways that graphs can be used to mislead the graph reader


Content table

Chapter 1. Introduction: Graphical Presentation of Data

Chapter 2. Simple Bar Graph

Chapter 3. Stacked Bar Graph

Chapter 4. Clustered Bar Graph

Chapter 5. Pie Graph

Chapter 6. Simple Line Graph

Chapter 7. Multiple Line Graph

Chapter 8. Simple Histogram

Chapter 9. Population Pyramid

Chapter 10. 1-D Boxplot

Chapter 11. Simple Boxplot

Chapter 12. Clustered Boxplot

Chapter 13. Simple Scatterplot

Chapter 14. Grouped Scatterplot

Chapter 15. High-Low Graphs

Chapter 16. Paneling on One Dimension

Chapter 17. Paneling on Two Dimensions

Chapter 18. Deceptive Graphing Examples

Chapter 19. Summary

Appendix A. SPSS Basic Information

Appendix B. Answers to Chapter Exercises

Appendix C. Chapters and SPSS Databases Used

Appendix D. Graph Selection - Type and Purpose

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