He has authored or coauthored articles in a variety of journals, including Psychological Methods, Structural Equation Modeling: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Psychometrika, Multivariate Behavioral Research, Applied Psychological Measurement, Educational and Psychological Measurement, Educational Measurement: Issues and Practices, and Methodology. He conducts research primarily in the areas of structural equation modeling, factor analysis, multivariate analyses of means, and reliability. Previously he was a professor in the Psychology Department at Auburn University and in the Department of Psychology and Research in Education at the University of Kansas. Denny Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics at Arizona State University.
Student learning is supported through examples, sample screen shots, exercises at the end of each lesson, and tips in the margins that help students practice what they have read and learn short cuts to make SPSS easier to use.NEW! A new exercise now appears at the end of each lesson in Part 1.An accessible format – with jargon-free prose and standard typing convention – makes it easy for readers to follow each step.NEW! Revisions to the statistical information make the book more usable to readers.NEW! Revisions to the instructions were made to ensure they were consistent with the latest version of SPSS.While there may be some slight differences, and earlier versions offer fewer features, the user should have no difficulty adapting these materials to the version he or she has available.Īdded Accessibility and Increased Problem Solving for a better user experience In other words, version 23 is backward compatible with most later versions of SPSS.
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NOTE: This ISBN is for a Pearson Books a la Carte edition: a convenient, three-hole-punched, loose-leaf text. The Eighth Edition has been updated for SPSS version 23 (Windows/Mac), and now offers added accessibility and increased problem solving. Authors Samuel Green and Neil Salkind provide extensive substantive information about each statistical technique, including a brief discussion of the technique, examples of how the statistic is applied, a sample data set that can be analyzed with the statistic, a discussion of the analysis results, practice exercises, and more.
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