A Simple Guide to SPSS® for Political Science, International Edition, International edition Edition

PART 1: HOW TO USE IBM SPSS STATISTICS. 1. Introduction to IBM SPSS Statistics. 2. Creating and Saving a Data Set. 3. The ANES 2008 Data Set. 4. Specifying Analyses. 5. Viewing and Manipulating Output. PART 2: PROCEDURES. 6. Frequency Distributions and Descriptive Statistics. 7. Making Comparisons. 8. One-Sample t-Test. 9. Independent-Samples t-Test. 10. One-Way Independent-Groups ANOVA. 11. Two-Way Independent-Groups ANOVA. 12. Correlations. 13. Simple Linear Regression. 14. Multiple Linear Regression. 15. Chi-Square Test of Independence. 16. Logistic Regression. Appendix: Data Transformations.

Lee A. Kirkpatrick is Associate Professor of Psychology at the College of William and Mary, where he has taught since 1991. He teaches courses in statistics (introductory and advanced/graduate), research methods, and evolutionary psychology. He received his PhD in social/personality psychology from the University of Denver in 1988. Quentin Kidd received his PhD in political science from Texas Tech University in 1998. He is currently Associate Professor of Political Science and Chair of the Department of Government at Christopher Newport University, where he has taught since 1998. He teaches courses in research methods and American political behavior.