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SPSS textbooks worth a look
(or at least get your library to purchase):
[Page last updated 18 April 2013]
[NB: Where authors are marked in red the links for titles are to other pages on this site containing my reviews and/or detailed comments and (where available) links to author profiles. Some links are to publishers' sites or Google Books and allow you to view extracts of the text. Some books have their own associated websites]
Erik Mooi and Marko Sarstedt
A Concise Guide to Market Research: The process, data and methods using IBM SPSS Statistics
(Springer-Verlag, 2011)
. . is aimed at students in market and business research: It is very practice- and skill-oriented.
Alan Buckingham and Peter Saunders
The survey methods workbook: from design to analysis
(Polity Press, 2004)
Eelko Huizingh
Applied Statistics with SPSS
(Sage, 2007)
. . . is a much easier read, suitable for beginners and very easy to use.
Paul R Kinnear and Colin D Gray
PASW Statistics 17 Made Simple
(Psychology Press 2009)
. . . is a heavy duty statistics book by guys who know their way round SPSS. It's comprehensive, detailed and the examples are mainly medical.
Darren George and Paul Mallery
SPSS for Windows Step by Step: A Simple Study Guide and Reference, 17.0 Update
(10th edition, Pearson, 2009)
. . . has cursory statistical explanations, constantly referring to other texts, and has constant references to the SPSS manual. It also has irritating repetitions for every procedure of how to open SPSS. It's the only
one to cover Discriminant Analysis, Cluster Analysis and Multi-Dimensional Scaling.
George Argyrous
Statistics for Research with a Guide to SPSS
(Sage, 2005)
has probably the most honest title, deals with much bigger, and real, data sets. Some of the most useful stuff is on a CD instead of in the book, and he's obviously been around SPSS a lot.
Eric L Einspruch
An Introductory Guide to SPSS for Windows
(Sage, 2005)
. . . is a nice little book for beginners and includes a fair bit of syntax (but only via PASTE)
Neil Salkind
Statistics for People Who (Think They Hate) Statistics
(Sage, 2004)
. . . is very student friendly and beautifully written
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[NB: Where authors are marked in red the links for titles are to other pages on this site containing my reviews and/or detailed comments and (where available) links to author profiles. Some links are to publishers' sites or Google Books and allow you to view extracts of the text. Some books have their own associated websites]
Erik Mooi and Marko Sarstedt
A Concise Guide to Market Research: The process, data and methods using IBM SPSS Statistics
(Springer-Verlag, 2011)
. . is aimed at students in market and business research: It is very practice- and skill-oriented.
Alan Buckingham and Peter Saunders
The survey methods workbook: from design to analysis
(Polity Press, 2004)
Eelko Huizingh
Applied Statistics with SPSS
(Sage, 2007)
. . . is a much easier read, suitable for beginners and very easy to use.
Paul R Kinnear and Colin D Gray
PASW Statistics 17 Made Simple
(Psychology Press 2009)
. . . is a heavy duty statistics book by guys who know their way round SPSS. It's comprehensive, detailed and the examples are mainly medical.
Darren George and Paul Mallery
SPSS for Windows Step by Step: A Simple Study Guide and Reference, 17.0 Update
(10th edition, Pearson, 2009)
. . . has cursory statistical explanations, constantly referring to other texts, and has constant references to the SPSS manual. It also has irritating repetitions for every procedure of how to open SPSS. It's the only
one to cover Discriminant Analysis, Cluster Analysis and Multi-Dimensional Scaling.
George Argyrous
Statistics for Research with a Guide to SPSS
(Sage, 2005)
has probably the most honest title, deals with much bigger, and real, data sets. Some of the most useful stuff is on a CD instead of in the book, and he's obviously been around SPSS a lot.
Eric L Einspruch
An Introductory Guide to SPSS for Windows
(Sage, 2005)
. . . is a nice little book for beginners and includes a fair bit of syntax (but only via PASTE)
Neil Salkind
Statistics for People Who (Think They Hate) Statistics
(Sage, 2004)
. . . is very student friendly and beautifully written
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