Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS statistics : and sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll

Why Is My Evil Lecturer Forcing Me to Learn Statistics?; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; What The Hell Am I Doing Here? I Don't Belong Here; Initial Observation: Finding Something That Needs Explaining; Generating Theories And Testing Them; Collect Data to Test Your Theory; Analyzing Data; Reporting Data; Everything You Never Wanted to Know about Statistics; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Building Statistical Models; Populations And Samples; Statistical Models; Going Beyond The Data; Using Statistical Models To Test Research Questions; Modern Approaches toTheory Testing; Reporting Statistical Models; The IBM SPSS Statistics Environment; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Versions Of IBM SPSS Statistics; Windows versus MacOS; Getting Started; The Data Editor; Importing Data; The SPSS Viewer; Exporting SPSS Output; The Syntax Editor; Saving Files; Retrieving A File. Exploring Data with Graphs; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; The Art Of Presenting Data; The SPSS Chart Builder; Histograms; Boxplots (Box-Whisker Diagrams); Graphing Means: Bar Charts And Error Bars; Line Charts; Graphing Relationships: The Scatterplot; Editing Graphs; The Best of Bias; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; What is Bias?; Spotting Bias; Reducing Bias; Non-parametric Models; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; When to Use Non-parametric Tests; General Procedure on Non-parametric Tests in SPSS; Comparing Teo Independent Conditions: The Wilcox Rank-sum Test and Mann-Whitney Test; Comparing Two Related Conditions: the Wilcoxon Signed-rank Test; Differences Between Several Independent Groups: The Kruskal-Wallis Test; Differences Between Several Related Groups: Friedman's ANOVA; Correlation; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Modelling Relationships; Data Entry For Correlation. Analysis Using SPSS; Bivariate Correlation; Partial Correlation; Comparing Correlations; Calculating The Effect Size; How To Report Correlation Coefficents; Regression; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; An Introduction To Regression; Bias in Regrassion Models?; Regression Using SPSS: One Predictor; Multiple Regression; Regression With Several Predictors Using SPSS; Interpreting Multiple Regression; Comparing Two Means; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Looking at Differences; The t- test; Assumptions of the t- test; The Independent t- test Using SPSS; Paired-samples t- test Using SPSS; Between Groups or Repeated Measures; What is I Violate the Test Assumptions; Moderation, Mediation and More Regression; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Installing Custom Dialog Boxes in SPSS; Moderation: Interactions in Regression; Mediation; Categorical Predictors in Regression; Comparing Several Means: ANOVA (GLM 1); What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; The Theory Behind Anova; Assumptions of Anova; Planned Contrasts; Post hoc Procedures; Running One-way Anova in SPSS; Output From One-way Anova; Calculating the Effect Size; Reporting Results From One-way Independent Anova; Analysis of Covariance, ANCOVA (GLM 2); What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; What Is ANCOVA?; Assumptions And Issues In ANCOVA; Conducting ANCOVA in SPSS; Interpreting the Output From ANCOVA; Testing The Assumption Of Homogeneity Of Regression Slopes; Calculating The Effect Size; Reporting Results; Factorial ANOVA (GLM 3); What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Theory Of Factorial ANOVA (Independent Designs); Assumptions of Factorial ANOVA; Factorial ANOVA using SPSS; Output From Factorial ANOVA; Interpreting Interaction Graphs; Calculating Effect Sizes; Reporting The Results Of Two-Way ANOVA; Repeated-Measures Designs (GLM 4); What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Introduction To Repeated Measures Designs; Theory Of One-Way Repeated-Measures ANOVA; Assumptions in Repeated-Measures ANOVA; One-Way Repeated Measures ANOVA Using SPSS; Output For One-Way Repeated-Measures ANOVA; Effect Sizes For Repeated-Measures ANOVA. Reporting One-Way Repeated-Measures ANOVA; Factorial Repeated-Measures Designs; Output For Factorial Repeated-Measures ANOVA; Effect Sizes For Factorial Repeated-Measures ANOVA; Reporting The Results From Factorial Repeated-Measures ANOVA; Mixed Design ANOVA (GLM 5); What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Mixed Designs; Assumptions in Mixed Designs; What Do Men And Women Look For In A Partner?; Mixed ANOVA in SPSS; Output For Mixed Factorial ANOVA; Calculating Effect Sizes; Reporting The Results Of Mixed ANOVA; Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA); What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; When To Use MANOVA; Introduction; Theory Of MANOVA; Practical Issues When Conducting MANOVA; MANOVA Using SPSS; Output From MANOVA; Reporting Results From MANOVA; Following Up MANOVA With Discriminant Analysis; Output From The Discriminant Analysis; Reporting Results From from Discriminant Analysis; The. Final Interpretation; Exploratory Factor Analysis; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; When To Use Factor Analysis; Factors and Components; Discovering Factors; Research Example; Running The Analysis; Interpreting Output From SPSS; How To Report Factor Analysis; Reliability Analysis; How To Report Reliability Analysis; Categorical Data; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Analysing Categorical Data; Theory Of Analysing Categorical Data; Assumptions When Analysing Categorical Data; Doing Chi-Square in SPSS; Log-Linear Analysis Using SPSS; Effect Sizes In Loglinear Analysis; Reporting The Results Of Loglinear Analysis; Logistic Regression; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Background to Logistic Regression; What are the Principles Behind Logistic Regression?; Sources of Bias and Common Problems; Binary Logistic Regression: An Example That Will Make You Feel Eel; Interpreting Logistic. Regression; How to Report Logistic Regression; Testing Assumptions: Another Example; Predicting Several Categories: Multinominal Logistic Regression; Multilevel Linear Models; What Will This Chapter Tell Me?; Hierarchical Data; Theory Of Multilevel Linear Models; The Multilevel Model; Some Practical Issues; Multilevel Modelling Using SPSS; Growth Models; How To Report A Multilevel Model; A Message From The Octopus of Inescapable Despair; Epilogue; Nice Emails; Everybody Thinks I'm A Statistician; Craziness on a Grand Scale