A Guide to Computing Statistics with SPSS for Windows

by Dennis Howitt, Duncan Cramer

Learn all you need to know about statistics - and how to generate the statistics you need with the field's leading software package, SPSS for Windows. The book also contains detailed, practical coverage of variables, tables and diagrams, averages, variation and spread, distributions of scores and standard deviation. Coverage also includes: correlation coefficients, prediction, sampling, regression, statistical significance, inference, T-tests, chi-squares, non-parametric statistics, analysis of variance, partial and spurious correlation, multiple regression, and more. There is also a detailed case study walking through the analysis of a questionnaire and survey project.For anyone who needs to understand and work with statistics.
SPSS for Windows version 6.

208 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1996

About the author

Dennis Laurence Howitt was a graduate of Brunel University and the University of Sussex. His research career began with the study of mass communications but has developed into a broader interest in the application of psychology to social issues.

His primary research areas are:

*the effects of mass communications especially with reference to crime, violence and pornography
*racism and the profession of psychology
*paedophiles and sex offenders, child abuse
*forensic psychology

He is a chartered (forensic) psychologist and a Fellow of the British
Psychological Society.

His publications also include books on statistics, computing and methods.