Spss for Psychologists

by Nicola Brace, Richard Kemp, Rosemary Snelgar

This second edition of this text guides the novice user through the process of entering and analysing data using one of the most popular data and statistics software packages SPSS. The authors assume only the most basic of knowledge of a Windows package, remind students of basic issues regarding design and statistics, and proceed gently through all the major quantitative statistical techniques used in psychology, from introductory up to advanced level. Students are introduced to the rationale and use of each test and provided with clearly annotated examples of the output produced by SPSS. In this way, they are shown how to choose, perform and report the statistical analysis of their own data. The second edition has been expanded to include coverage of more advanced statistical tests, including ANCOVA, factor analysis, logistic repression and discriminant analysis.

Genres: Psychology, Nonfiction, School, Research, Textbooks

416 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2000

About the author

BSc(HONS) Psychology
PhD Psychology

Founding member of the International Centre for Comparative Criminological Research.

She is one of the six Open University centres of research excellence, and part of the centre's Forensic Psychology Research Group.

She works closely with Dr Graham Pike, Dr Hayley Ness, Dr Jim Turner and Dr Gemma Briggs.

Chartered member of:
The British Psychological Society
The European Association of Psychology and Law
Society for Applied Research in Memory and Cognition

Reviews

[Book Addict Shaun]

SPSS was the bane of my life for the two years I struggled through at uni. I would recommend this over the Andy Field book which will just make your head explode, this is written in a much easier to follow (and understand) style but unfortunately it wasn't simple enough for me and I still struggled immensely with SPSS!

[Kristen]

This book was basically understandable, but nothing special. It explains how to run various statistical tests in SPSS, but the explanations of what the tests ARE or WHY you might want to use them are tricky for someone with a minimal statistics background.

[Elizabeth Jewitt]

Recommended read for getting to grips with SPSS. I'm finding this is helping me make progress at last!

[Sainted Aunt]

This is a terrific little book with clear explanations for various SPSS tests and great examples. It needs a few more tests added to it but I found it a great help.

[Fenris Lyall]

Really great book when using SPSS.