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EVERYTHING YOU WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT STATISTICS (WELL,
SORT OF) | Building Statistical Models | Populations and Samples | Simple

Statistics
Statistical Models | Frequency Distributions | Is My Sample Representative of
the Population? | Linear Models | How Can We Tell If Our Model Represents
the Real World?
THE SPSS ENVIRONMENT | Versions of SPSS | Getting Started | The Data

Using SPSS
Editor | The Output Viewer | The Syntax Window | Saving Files | Retrieving a
File
EXPLORING DATA | Parametric Data | Graphing and Screening Data |
Exploring Groups of Data | Testing Whether a Distribution is Normal | Testing
for Homogeneity of Variance | Graphing Means |
CORRELATION | How Do We Measure Relationships? | Data Entry for
Second Edition Correlation Analysis Using SPSS | Graphing Relationships: The Scatterplot
| Bivariate Correlation | Partial Correlation | How To Report Correlation
Andy Field University of Sussex Coefficients
REGRESSION | An Introduction to Regression | Doing Simple Regression on
SPSS | Interpreting a Simple Regression | Multiple Regression: The Basics
This new edition of Field’s textbook provides students | How Accurate Is My Regression Model? | How To Do Multiple Regression
of statistical methods with everything they need to Using SPSS | Interpreting Multiple Regression | How To Report Multiple
Regression | Categorical Predictors and Multiple Regression |
understand, use and report statistics - at every level.
LOGISTIC REGRESSION | Background to Logistic Regression | What
Are the Principles behind Logistic Regression? | Running the Analysis:
Written in Andy Field’s vivid and entertaining style, A Research Example | Interpreting Logistic Regression | How To Report
and furnished with playful examples from everyday Logistic Regression | Another Example | Testing for Multicollinearity | Things
student life (among other places), the book forms an That Can Go Wrong |
accessible gateway into the often intimidating world COMPARING TWO MEANS | Revision of Experimental Research | Inputting
of statistics and a unique opportunity for students to Data and Displaying Means with Error Bar Charts | Testing Differences
ground their knowledge of statistics through the use of Between Means: The t-Test | The Dependent t-Test | The Independent t-Test
| Between Groups or Repeated Measures? | The t-Test as a General Linear
SPSS. The text is fully compliant with the latest release Model | What If Our Data Are Not Normally Distributed?
of SPSS (version 13).
COMPARING SEVERAL MEANS: ANOVA (GLM 1) | The Theory behind
ANOVA | Running One-Way ANOVA on SPSS | Output from One-Way
Key updates in the new edition: ANOVA | Calculating the Effect Size | Reporting Results from One-Way
Independent ANOVA | Violations of Assumptions in One-Way Independent
• More coverage with completely new material on non- ANOVA
parametric statistics, loglinear analysis, effect sizes ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE, ANCOVA (GLM 2) | What Is ANCOVA? |
and how to report statistical analysis. Conducting ANCOVA on SPSS | Interpreting the Output from ANCOVA |
ANCOVA Run as a Multiple Regression | Additional Assumptions in ANCOVA
• Even more student-friendly features, including a | Calculating the Effect Size | Reporting Results |
glossary of key statistical terms and exercises at the FACTORIAL ANOVA (GLM 3) | Theory of Factorial ANOVA (Between Groups)
end of chapters for students to work through, with | Factorial ANOVA Using SPSS | Output from Factorial ANOVA |
datasets and answers to chapter exercises on the REPEATED-MEASURES DESIGNS (GLM 4) | Introduction to Repeated-
accompanying CD-ROM. Measures Designs | Theory of One-Way Repeated-Measures ANOVA |
One-Way Repeated-Measures ANOVA Using SPSS | Output for One-Way
Repeated-Measures ANOVA | Effect Sizes for Repeated-Measures ANOVA |
• A larger and more easy-to-reference format: notation Reporting One-Way Repeated-Measures ANOVA | Repeated-Measures with
in each section identifies the intended level of study Several Independent Variables | Output for Factorial Repeated-Measures
while the new 2-colour text design enhances the ANOVA | Effect Sizes for Factorial Repeated-Measures ANOVA | Reporting
features in the book and, together with the larger the Results from Factorial Repeated-Measures ANOVA |
format, provides extra clarity throughout. MIXED DESIGN ANOVA (GLM 5) | Mixed ANOVA on SPSS | Output for
Mixed Factorial ANOVA: Main Analysis | Calculating Effect Sizes | Reporting
the Results of Mixed ANOVA |
• Online support for lecturers through a companion
website specifically designed to complement the text. NON-PARAMETRIC TESTS | Comparing Two Independent Conditions: The
Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test and Mann-Whitney Test | Combining Two Related
Conditions: The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test | Differences between Several
Andy Field is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at The Independent Groups: The Kruskal-Wallis Test | Differences between Several
University of Sussex where his success in making Related Groups: Friedman’s ANOVA |
statistics accessible was recognized with a teaching MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE | Introduction: Similarities and
award in 2001. Differences to ANOVA | Theory of MANOVA | Assumptions of MANOVA |
MANOVA on SPSS | Output from MANOVA | Following Up MANOVA with
Discriminant Analysis | Output from the Discriminant Analysis |
EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS | Factors | Discovering Factors |
Research Example | Running the Analysis | Interpreting Output from SPSS |
Reliability Analysis
CATEGORICAL DATA | Theory of Analyzing Categorical Data | Assumptions
of the Chi-Square Test | Doing Chi-Square on SPSS | Several Categorical
Variables: Log Linear Analysis | Assumptions in Loglinear Analysis | Loglinear
Analysis Using SPSS | Output from Loglinear Analysis | Following Up
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Statistics Using SPSS is an excellent book and a
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Praise from teachers: title of the book accurately reflects the approach
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‘It completely transformed my teaching of basic statistics to the SPSS, but is a very good statistics text using SPSS
graduate students from “okay” to “great”. As a result, this year (and for as a vehicle for illustrating and expanding on the
the foreseeable future), I will be using your book as the chief text in statistical content of the book. At the same time it
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‘The way you’ve managed to bring the reader so quickly into the - David C Howell, Professor Emeritus, University
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