Practical Statistics
A Quick and Easy Guide to IBM® SPSS® Statistics, STATA, and Other Statistical Software
- David Kremelberg - DK Statistical Consulting Inc., University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
This book provides readers with step-by-step guidance on running a wide variety of statistical analyses in IBM® SPSS® Statistics, Stata, and other programs. Author David Kremelberg begins his user-friendly text by covering charts and graphs through regression, time-series analysis, and factor analysis. He provides a background of the method, then explains how to run these tests in IBM SPSS and Stata. He then progresses to more advanced kinds of statistics such as HLM and SEM, where he describes the tests and explains how to run these tests in their appropriate software including HLM and AMOS.
This is an invaluable guide for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students across the social and behavioral sciences who need assistance in understanding the various statistical packages.
This book can be adopted as an essential book for the course in Econometrics, Stata course or Applied Statistics. It has a moderate amount of necessary formulas, gives the codes for Stata programs and its' outcomes (with print screens). The contents is logical, starting from simple tests, linear regression and going to multiple, with a discussion of time series and structural equation model.
The fact that it approaches statistical analyses on two fronts( SPSS and STATA) makes it handy for students who want to learn both at the same time. It is brilliant 2 in 1 book.
A very useful textbook to understand basic statistics
Some errors in numbers.
Explanations are short,not detailed.
Example are a few.
This book is essential for students who wish to study SPSS in a more detailed way.
Useful but not to be essential text as it doesn't have enough detail.
SPSS support, cheap. Good suitability as a supporting textbook.
good explanations, too simplistic for doctoral level work.
A very good guide for basic practics in statistical methods with a main focus to SPSS, but also to STATA. My students preffered it (even if it is written not in their native language, german) because the usage of the statistical procedures is described with easy to understand screen-shots that can be recognised during their own work.
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