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Textbooks requested or awaiting review
[Page last updated 11 September 2015]
Books received, awaiting review:
An e-book version is currently available for $1.99!
Eric Einspruch
Next Steps with SPSS
(Sage 2004)
Cole Davis
SPSS Step by Step: Essentials for social and political science
(Policy Press, 2013)
Gareth Norris, Faizal Qureshi, Dennis Howitt and Duncan Cramer
Introduction to Statistics with SPSS for Social Science
(Pearson, 2012)
This one has full-colour screenshots. Also available as an etextbook. Basically for psychology.as data sets used are very small and artificial. Despite claims, not really suitable for sociology, political science etc. No large data sets and insufficient analysis using tabulation.
Manfred te Grotenhuis and Chris Visscher
How to Use SPSS Syntax
(Sage, forthcoming 2014)
Manfred de Grotenhuis and Theo van der Weegen
Statistical Tools: an Overview of Common Applications in Social Sciences
(van Gorcum, 2009)
Review copies awaited:
Keith McCormick and Jesus Salcedo with Aaron Poh
SPSS for Dummies
Wiley (3rd edition, 2015)
Philip H Pollack III,
An SPSS Companion to Political Analysis
(Sage 2012)
Ciaran Acton, Robert Miller, John Maltby & Deirdre Fullerton
SPSS for Social Scientists
(Palgrave Macmillan 2009)
. . is apparently out of print, but copies are still in the shops: see Review of 2009 edition by Willis Odek
Stephen A.Sweet, and Karen Grace-Martin
Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics
(4th Edition Pearson, 2010) I don't have a hard copy of this book, but I was sent an e-textbook version. See page Sweet and Grace-Martin 2010
Barbara G Tabachnik and Linda S Fidell,
Using Multivariate Statistics
(6th edition. Pearson, 2012)
No reply to request for review copy.
Raymond Kent
Analysing Quantitative Data Variable-based and Case-based Approaches to Non-experimental Datasets
(Sage, 2015)
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Books received, awaiting review:
An e-book version is currently available for $1.99!
Eric Einspruch
Next Steps with SPSS
(Sage 2004)
Cole Davis
SPSS Step by Step: Essentials for social and political science
(Policy Press, 2013)
Gareth Norris, Faizal Qureshi, Dennis Howitt and Duncan Cramer
Introduction to Statistics with SPSS for Social Science
(Pearson, 2012)
This one has full-colour screenshots. Also available as an etextbook. Basically for psychology.as data sets used are very small and artificial. Despite claims, not really suitable for sociology, political science etc. No large data sets and insufficient analysis using tabulation.
Manfred te Grotenhuis and Chris Visscher
How to Use SPSS Syntax
(Sage, forthcoming 2014)
Manfred de Grotenhuis and Theo van der Weegen
Statistical Tools: an Overview of Common Applications in Social Sciences
(van Gorcum, 2009)
Review copies awaited:
Keith McCormick and Jesus Salcedo with Aaron Poh
SPSS for Dummies
Wiley (3rd edition, 2015)
Philip H Pollack III,
An SPSS Companion to Political Analysis
(Sage 2012)
Ciaran Acton, Robert Miller, John Maltby & Deirdre Fullerton
SPSS for Social Scientists
(Palgrave Macmillan 2009)
. . is apparently out of print, but copies are still in the shops: see Review of 2009 edition by Willis Odek
Stephen A.Sweet, and Karen Grace-Martin
Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics
(4th Edition Pearson, 2010) I don't have a hard copy of this book, but I was sent an e-textbook version. See page Sweet and Grace-Martin 2010
Barbara G Tabachnik and Linda S Fidell,
Using Multivariate Statistics
(6th edition. Pearson, 2012)
No reply to request for review copy.
Raymond Kent
Analysing Quantitative Data Variable-based and Case-based Approaches to Non-experimental Datasets
(Sage, 2015)
Back to SPSS textbooks