Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics

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SAGE, Feb 20, 2013 - Social Science - 952 pages

Lecturers/instructors - request a free digital inspection copy here

With a little help from his weird band of characters the Fourth Edition of the award-winning book continues, with its unique blend of humour and collection of bizarre examples, to bring statistics - from first principles to advanced concepts - well and truly to life using IBM SPSS Statistics.

Lecturers: with WebAssign® you can manage and monitor your students' progress quickly and easily online or give them more opportunities to practise!
Ideal for short courses, choose to use WebAssign® alongside the Fourth Edition of Andy Field's textbook to quickly set up courses and schedule assignments (using the 2159 questions available) and track individual performance so you can spot in an instant where more instruction or practice is needed. If not using for fomal assessment, WebAssign® still lets you set questions for your students to practise over and over again. They get instant feedback and also links to the relevant chapter or section in the integral ebook to help them work out the correct solution.

For more information on how to integrate WebAssign® into a forthcoming course or to arrange a class test please contact your local SAGE representative for more details. (Students please note: access to WebAssign® is dependent not only on the purchase of a student access code (ISBN: 9781446273043) but also a username, institution code and password supplied by your course leader/instructor).

SAGE MobileStudy - study where and when you like
Scan any QR code within the book to access revision material on a smartphone or tablet such as Cramming Sam's Study tips, flashcard glossaries, interactive multiple choice questionnaires and more. Click here to take a look (if you're accessing the site from a desktop you'll be taken to the Companion Website instead; look out for the MobileStudy icon to show you which pages are also available on the MobileStudy site).

See how Andy's book is changing the landscape for textbooks through the use of technology!

Support materials for a wide range of disciplines
Education and Sport Sciences lecturer support materials with enhanced ones for Psychology, Business and Management and the Health Sciences on the enhanced Companion Website make the book even more relevant to a wider range of subjects across the social sciences and where statistics is taught to a cross-disciplinary audience.

Other major new updates include:

  • Now fully compatible with recent IBM SPSS Statistics releases.
  • Two new characters! Statistical cult leader Oditi provides students with access to video clips via his Lantern to help further understanding of statistical/SPSS concepts, while Confusius helps students to make better sense of statistical terms.
  • The enhanced Companion Website offers plenty of lecturer and student material to use in conjunction with the textbook. These include PowerPoints and subject-specific testbanks for lecturers as well as answers to the Smart Alex tasks at the end of the each chapter; datafiles for testing problems in SPSS; flashcards of key concepts; self-assessment multiple-choice questions; and online videos of key statistical and SPSS procedures discussed in the textbook for students.

Video Links

  • Go behind the scenes of the Fourth Edition, and find out about the man behind the book
  • Watch Andy introduce SAGE MobileStudy
  • Ask Andy Anything: Teaching stats... and Robbie Williams' head
  • Ask Andy Anything: Gibson or Fender
  • Ask Andy Anything: The one part of the book Andy hated writing


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Contents

1 Why is my evil lecturer forcing me to learn statistics?
1
2 Everything you never wanted to know about statistics
40
3 The IBM SPSS Statistic senvironment
89
4 Exploring data with graphs
121
5 The beast of bias
163
6 Nonparametric models
213
7 Correlation
262
8 Regression
293
14 Repeatedmeasures designs GLM 4
543
15 Mixed design ANOVA GLM 5
591
16 Multivariate analysis of variance MANOVA
623
17 Exploratory factor analysis
665
18 Categorical data
720
19 Logistic regression
760
20 Multilevel linear models
814
life after discovering statistics
867

9 Comparing two means
357
10 Moderation mediation and more regression
392
ANOVA GLM 1
429
12 Analysis of covariance ANCOVA GLM 2
478
13 Factorial ANOVA GLM 3
507
Glossary
870
Appendix
887
References
899
Index
908
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About the author (2013)

Andy Field is Professor of Child Psychopathology at the University of Sussex. He has published over 80 research papers, 29 book chapters, and 17 books mostly on child emotional development and statistics. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Experimental Psychopathology and has been an associate editor and editorial board member for the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, Cognition and Emotion, Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review and Research Synthesis Methods. His ability to make statistics accessible and fun has been recognized with local and national teaching awards (University of Sussex, 2001, 2015, 2016; the British Psychological Society, 2007), a prestigious UK National Teaching Fellowship (2010), and the British Psychological Society book award (2006). He adores cats (and dogs), and loves to listen to and play very heavy music. He lives in Brighton with his wonderful wife Zoë, his son Zach, his crazy spaniel Ramsey and Fuzzy the cat.

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