Description:
This companion to The New Statistical Analysis of Data by Anderson and Finn provides a hands-on guide to data analysis using SPSS - one of the most widely-used and liked statistical computing packages available for the PC. With this Guide come instructions for obtaining the data sets to be analysed from over the World Wide Web. First, the authors provide a brief review of using SPSS. Then, following the organization of The New Statistical Analysis of Data, readers participate in analysing many of the data sets discussed in the book. In doing so, students both learn how to conduct reasonbly sophisticated statistical analyses using SPSS whilst at the same time gain insight into the nature and purpose of statistical investigation