Monday, February 8, 2010

SOURCES FOR LEARNING SPSS ON THE INTERNET

SOURCES FOR LEARNING SPSS ON THE INTERNET

1. University Websites

Indiana University
Getting Started with SPSS for Windows
Review: Deals with basic topics such as Descriptive Statistics, T-test, one-way ANOVA, Simple Linear Regression and Correlation Analysis.

Valparaiso University, Indiana
Using SPSS to Understand Research and Data Analysis
Review: This website is useful for many basic SPSS procedures such as Correlation, T-tests and ANOVA. It has 15 chapters. Interpretation of output and writing of results according to APA format are given.

North Carolina State University
SPSS Tutorial
Review: Covers a wide range of topics under Quantitative and Qualitative Methods. I highly recommend this as a source of reference.

University of California, Los Angeles
Resources to Help You Learn and Use SPSS

Review: Deals with topics under broad headings of Analysis of Variance, Regression, Logistic Regression and Multilevel Modeling. Provides sample write-up of the analysis.

University of Alabama
SPSS for Windows Tutorials
http://bama.ua.edu/~jhartman/689/tutintro.html
Review: ANOVA, Multiple Linear Regression, ANCOVA, Binomial Logistic Regression. It comes with PowerPoint Slide Shows.

2. On-line Books

Statistica
Electronic Statistics Textbook
http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/anova-manova/#bthe
Review: A comprehensive coverage of topics under Statistical Analysis. It comes with Statistics Glossary. I highly recommend this website.

*Data Analysis for the Behavioural Sciences using SPSS
Sharon L Weinberg & Sarah Knapp Abramowitz

*Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioural Sciences
David C. Howell

*SPSS Survival Manual: A Step by Step Guide to Data Analysis
Julie Pallant - 353 pages

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(To access, type books.google.com.followed by book title in Google Search)
Khatijah Syed Ahmad