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Pallant 2010 (4th edition)
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SPSS Survival Manual: A Step by Step Guide to Data Analysis using SPSS for Windows
(4th edition, Open University Press, 2010)
There are preview pages on Google Books.
This deserved best-seller is very good on process, presentation and statistics, and is aimed primarily at postgraduate psychologists desperately trying to write theses on their own or with inadequate supervision. This latest edition relates to SPSS 18 and uses only drop-down menus: syntax appears only as a by-product of menus and there is no analysis to speak of using percentages via tabulation. Swathes of SPSS facilities are completely missing. Needs to be used in conjunction with other texts.
This edition has been revised (additional data sets, different layout) but content and coverage are
effectively the same as the 3rd edition, 2007. See my separate extended, detailed and completely different critical review of 1st edition (2001) and critical review of 2nd edition (2005) which apply equally to the new
edition, and which need to be read together).
SPSS Survival Manual: A Step by Step Guide to Data Analysis using SPSS for Windows
(4th edition, Open University Press, 2010)
There are preview pages on Google Books.
This deserved best-seller is very good on process, presentation and statistics, and is aimed primarily at postgraduate psychologists desperately trying to write theses on their own or with inadequate supervision. This latest edition relates to SPSS 18 and uses only drop-down menus: syntax appears only as a by-product of menus and there is no analysis to speak of using percentages via tabulation. Swathes of SPSS facilities are completely missing. Needs to be used in conjunction with other texts.
This edition has been revised (additional data sets, different layout) but content and coverage are
effectively the same as the 3rd edition, 2007. See my separate extended, detailed and completely different critical review of 1st edition (2001) and critical review of 2nd edition (2005) which apply equally to the new
edition, and which need to be read together).