Book description
The fun and friendly guide to the world's leading statistical software
Predictive Analysis Software (PASW), formerly SPSS software, is the leading statistical software used by commerical, government, and academic organizations around the world to solve business and research problems. It allows you to quickly and easily discover new insights from data, test hypotheses, and build powerful predictive models.
PASW Statistics For Dummies covers everything you need to know to get up and running with this efficient and practical software.*
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PASW Statistics is the leading statistical software used to analyze data and create predictive models; it is used by business, academic, and government entities worldwide*
This guide explains how to work with automatic codebook generation and customize the variable view*
Walks you through the rounding method that is used in all calculations and explains using predictive analysis*
Shows how to maximize your use of graph templates, and much more*
Even if you have little or no statistical or mathematical background, PASW Statistics For Dummies will show you how to generate statistical support and decision-making information quickly and easily.
Table of contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Author's Acknowledgments
- Publisher's Acknowledgments
- Introduction
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I. The Fundamental Mechanics of SPSS
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1. Introducing IBM SPSS Statistics
- 1.1. Garbage In, Garbage Out
- 1.2. Where Did SPSS Come From?
- 1.3. The Four Ways to Talk to SPSS
- 1.4. What You Can and Cannot Do with SPSS
- 1.5. How SPSS Works
- 1.6. Where SPSS Works
- 1.7. All the Strange Words
- 1.8. All Those Files
- 1.9. Where to Get Help When You Need It
- 1.10. Your Most Valuable Possession
- 1.11. You Can Dive as Deep as You Want to Go
- 2. Installing Software and Setting Options
- 3. A Simple Statistical Analysis Example
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1. Introducing IBM SPSS Statistics
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II. Getting Data In and Out of SPSS
- 4. Entering Data from the Keyboard
- 5. Reading and Writing Files
- 6. Data and Data Types
- 7. Messing with the Data After It's in There
- 8. Getting Data Out of SPSS
- III. Graphing Data
- IV. Analysis
- V. Programming SPSS with Command Syntax
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VI. Programming SPSS with Python and Scripts
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16. The Python Programming Language
- 16.1. Instructing Python: You Type It In and Python Does It
- 16.2. Understanding the Way Python Does Arithmetic
- 16.3. Understanding the Way Python Handles Words
- 16.4. Understanding the Way Python Handles Lists
- 16.5. Making Functions
- 16.6. Making Decisions with if/else
- 16.7. Doing It Over Again with for and while
- 17. Python inside SPSS
- 18. Scripts
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16. The Python Programming Language
- VII. The Part of Tens
- glossary
Product information
- Title: SPSS For Dummies®, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: January 2010
- Publisher(s): For Dummies
- ISBN: 9780470487648
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