Doing Statistics With SPSS
- Alistair W Kerr - De Montfort University,Bedford
- Howard K Hall - York St John University College
- Stephen A Kozub - De Montfort University, Bedford, UK
"A well-written and -illustrated work, recommended for all college libraries. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."
--CHOICE, December 2002
Doing Statistics With SPSS is derived from the authors' many years of experience teaching undergraduates data handling using SPSS. It assumes no prior understanding beyond that of basic mathematical operations and is therefore suitable for anyone undertaking an introductory statistics course as part of a science based undergraduate programme. The text will: enable the reader to make informed choices about what statistical tests to employ; what assumptions are made in using a particular test; demonstrate how to execute the analysis using SPSS; and guide the reader in his//her interpretation of its output. Each chapter ends with an exercise and provides detailed instructions on how to run the analysis using SPSS release 10. Learning is further guided by pointing the reader to particular aspects of the SPSS output and by having the reader engage with specified items of information from the SPSS results.
This text is more complete than the alternatives that usually fall into one of two camps. They either provide an explanation of the concepts but no instructions on how to execute the analysis with SPSS, or they are a manual which instructs the reader on how to drive the software but with minimal explanation of what it all means. This book offers the best elements of both in a style that is economical and accessible.
Doing Statistics with SPSS will be essential reading for undergraduates in psychology and health-related disciplines, and likely to be of invaluable use to many other students in the social sciences taking a course in statistics.
"A well-written and -illustrated work, recommended for all college libraries. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty."
This book is very detailed and offers a great insight into the part stats has to play in research. While it bolstered my knowledge in delivering stats, this book perhaps goes beyond most undergraduate students' understanding in sport studies. However, for MSc students this is a great book.
The advantage of this book is being concise. It has the right size for a course book and has a manageable page number (230, which is almost half of the similar books). Although it does not employ a sense of humour, similar to some other books in the field, it is easily readable. However, although it has been re-printed in 2008, it has not been updated since 2002, and therefore, it is based on an outdated version of SPSS (version 10).
Sage College Publishing
