Review Exercises (5 for each chapter) provide additional hands-on practice.Nonparametric tests are included in the same chapters as their related parametric tests to help readers find the information they need more quickly.Directory (folder) location of the IBM SPSS Statistics. (If there is no file name displayed in the title bar of the Data Editor window, then the active dataset does not have a file name.) Location. If the dataset has never been saved in IBM SPSS Statistics format, then there is no data file name. Screenshots and callouts present additional details on where to click, unclick, and enter variable information and/or data. Name of the IBM SPSS Statistics data file.Bulleted, step-by-step instructions for doing statistical analysis include items the reader should click on in bold and other important terms in italics.Chapter objectives alert readers to what they’ll learn in the pages that follow.
This book makes the benefits of the latest SPSS program available not only to the novice but also to the more experienced user of statistics.(2-tailed)” column shown in much of SPSS’s output. A new Appendix provides examples of the use of the normal curve and z-table to solve probability type problems that encourages the student/statistician to examine and understand the real meaning and importance of the “Sig.