E-raamat: Practical Statistics: A Quick and Easy Guide to IBM(R) SPSS(R) Statistics, STATA, and Other Statistical Software

For upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in the social and behavioral sciences, Kremelberg, a statistical consultant and writer who has held research positions at the U. of Connecticut and the Institute for Community Research in Connecticut, explains how to run a variety of statistical analyses in IBM SPSS Statistics, STATA, and other programs. After introducing quantitative methods and statistics, he focuses on the practical use of statistics and descriptive statistics; commonly used tests like Pearson's coefficient, chi-square, and the ANOVA; linear and other forms of regression; factor analysis; time-series analysis; hierarchical linear modeling; and structural equation modeling. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This book is designed to provide you with step-by-step instructions for running a wide variety of statistical analyses in SPSS, Stata, and other programs. In early chapters, which cover charts and graphs through regression, time-series analysis, and factor analysis, a background of the method is presented, followed by sections detailing how to run these tests in SPSS and Stata. In the chapters on HLM and SEM, these tests are first described, then sections detailing how to run these tests in HLM and AMOS, respectively, are presented. This book's aim is to assist you in understanding a wide variety of statistical tests as well as giving you simple instructions on how to run and interpret the results of these tests.