Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics, 4/e (美國原版)

Data Analysis with SPSS is designed to teach students how to explore data in a systematic manner using the most popular professional social statistics program on the market today.

Written in ten manageable chapters, this book first introduces students to the approach researchers use to frame research questions and the logic of establishing causal relations. Students are then oriented to the SPSS program and how to examine data sets. Subsequent chapters guide them through univariate analysis, bivariate analysis, graphic analysis, and multivariate analysis. Students conclude their course by learning how to write a research report and by engaging in their own research project.

Each book is packaged with a disk containing the GSS (General Social Survey) file and the States data files. The GSS file contains 100 variables generated from interviews with 2,900 people, concerning their behaviors and attitudes on a wide variety of issues such as abortion, religion, prejudice, sexuality, and politics. The States data allows comparison of all 50 states with 400 variables indicating issues such as unemployment, environment, criminality, population, and education. Students will ultimately use these data to conduct their own independent research project with SPSS.

《使用SPSS進行資料分析》是一本旨在教導學生如何以系統性的方式使用當今市場上最受歡迎的專業社會統計程式來探索資料的書籍。

本書分為十個易於理解的章節，首先介紹了研究者用來構建研究問題和建立因果關係邏輯的方法。接著，學生將學習如何使用SPSS程式和檢查資料集。隨後的章節將引導他們進行單變量分析、雙變量分析、圖形分析和多變量分析。學生最終將通過學習如何撰寫研究報告和參與自己的研究項目來完成課程。

每本書都附有一個光碟，其中包含GSS（General Social Survey）檔案和States資料檔案。GSS檔案包含從與2,900人進行的訪談中生成的100個變數，涉及墮胎、宗教、偏見、性取向和政治等各種問題的行為和態度。States資料允許對所有50個州進行比較，其中包含400個變數，指示失業、環境、犯罪、人口和教育等問題。學生最終將使用這些資料來進行自己的獨立研究項目。