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AN EASYGUIDE TO RESEARCH DESIGN & SPSS® SECOND EDITION
Beth M. Schwartz, Heidelberg University • Janie H. Wilson, Georgia Southern University • Dennis M. Goff,
Randolph College
An EasyGuide to Research Design & SPSS® is an essential resource for students to successfully navigate and
complete research projects. Using a clear, concise, and conversational writing style, the authors cover all of the most
basic and common designs and analyses that students need to know for appropriately testing a hypothesis. The
handbook includes step-by-step instructions accompanied by ample screenshots for working with data in SPSS®,
along with guidance on interpreting outputs and formatting results in APA style. The Second Edition features a
streamlined organization, updated references, and new content on factorial designs, effect size, and G*Power.
CONTENTS SECTION I. OVERVIEW OF BASIC DESIGN DECISIONS / 1. The Marriage of Stats and Methods: 'til Death Do They Part / 2. Nominal,
Ordinal, Interval, or Ratio: Why Your Type of Data Really Does Matter / 3. Designing Your Hypothesis: To KISS (Keep It Simple, Student) or to
Complicate Matters / SECTION II. YOUR BASIC SPSS TOOLBOX / 4. Why SPSS and Not Other Software, Your Calculator, Fingers, or Toes / 5. Handling
Your Data in SPSS: Columns, and Labels, and Values . . . Oh My! / 6. Descriptive Statistics: Tell Me About It / SECTION III. DESIGNS, STATISTICS,
INTERPRETATION, AND WRITE-UP IN APA STYLE / 7. Between-Groups Designs: Celebrate Your Independence! / 8. Repeated-Measures Designs:
Everybody Plays! / 9. Advanced Research Designs: Complicating Matters / 10. Correlational Analysis: How Do I Know If That Relationship Is Real?
/ 11. Chi Square: Staying on the Same Frequency / 12. How Many Participants Do You Need? More Power to You! / SECTION IV. A SUMMARY / 13.
Mapping Your Decisions: You Can Get There From Here / 14. APA Results Sections / 15. Frequently Asked Questions: Did I Do That?
SPIRAL ISBN: 978-1-5063-8548-8 • ©2019 • 312 PAGES •
Supplements for R
AN R COMPANION TO APPLIED REGRESSION THIRD EDITION
John Fox, McMaster University, Canada • Sanford Weisberg, University of Minnesota
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-5443-3647-3 • ©2019 • 552 PAGES •
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Supplements for STATA
USING STATA FOR QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS THIRD EDITION
Kyle C. Longest, Furman University
Using Stata for Quantitative Analysis offers a brief, but thorough introduction to analyzing data in undergraduate
and graduate level research methods and statistical analysis courses using Stata software. Kyle C. Longest teaches
the language of Stata from an intuitive perspective, allowing students with no experience in statistical software to work
with the data in a very short amount of time and complete a basic quantitative research project from start to fi nish.
The Third Edition covers the use of Stata 15, and includes more information on data management, and non-linear
regression techniques. Enhanced layouts make fi nding important commands even easier.
CONTENTS PART I: FOUNDATIONS FOR WORKING WITH STATA / 1: Getting to Know Stata 15 / 2: The Essentials / 3: Do Files and Data
Management / PART II: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS WITH STATA / 4: Descriptive Statistics / 5: Relationships Between Nominal and Ordinal
Variables / 6: Relationships Between Different Measurement Levels / 7: Relationships Between Interval-Ratio Variables / 8: Enhancing Your
Command Repertoire
PAPERBACK ISBN: 978-1-5443-1852-3 • MARCH 2019 • 276 PAGES •
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