Statistical Methods for Practice and Research
Statistical Methods for Practice and Research: A Guide to Data Analysis Using SPSS


This book is designed to help the managers and researchers in solving statistical problems using SPSS and to help them understand how they can use various statistical tools for their own research problems. SPSS is a very powerful and user friendly computer package for data analyses. It can take data from most other file-types and generate tables, charts, plots, and descriptive statistics, and conduct complex statistical analyses. This book will help students, business managers, academics as well as practicing researchers to solve statistical problems using the latest version of SPSS (16.0). After providing a brief overview of SPSS and basic statistical concepts, the book covers:

Descriptive statistics t-tests, chi-square tests, and ANOVA
Correlation analysis
Multiple and logistics regression
Factor analysis and testing scale reliability
Advanced data handling