Using SPSS for social statistics and research methods / William E. Wagner III.

Overview -- Opening existing data files -- Importing data from non-SPSS file formats -- Opening previously created output files -- Saving files -- Creating new SPSS data files -- Creating and editing SPSS output files -- Preferences: getting started -- Measurement of variables using SPSS -- Transforming variables -- Recoding and computing variables --Recoding variables -- Computing variables -- Using the count function -- Computing an index using mean -- Multiple response -- Organization and presentation of information -- Measures of central tendency and variability -- Frequency distributions -- Charts and graphs -- Boxplot -- Scatterplot -- Histogram -- Bar graph -- Pie chart -- Alternate methods of creating charts and graphs -- Cross-tabulation and measures of association for nominal and ordinal variables -- Bivariate analysis -- Adding another variable or dimension to the analysis -- Measures of association for nominal and ordinal variables -- Lambda -- Gamma and Somers' d -- Correlate and regression analysis -- Bivariate regression -- Correlation -- Multiple regression -- Selecting and sampling cases -- Targeted selection -- Random selection -- Selecting cases for inclusion in a new dataset -- Testing hypotheses using means and cross-tabulation -- Comparing means -- Comparing means: paired-samples t-test -- Comparing means: independent-samples t-test -- Chi-square -- Analysis of variance -- One-way Anova -- Anova in regression -- Editing output -- Editing basic tables -- Copying to Microsoft Word -- Exporting output -- Editing charts and graphs -- Advanced applications -- Merging data from multiple files -- Opening previously created syntax files -- Creating new SPSS syntax files.