Another useful site and book

[John F Hall]

Just found another useful site and textbook.

 

Stephen A. Sweet, and Karen Grace-Martin 
Data Analysis with SPSS: A First Course in Applied Statistics
(4th Edition Pearson, 2010)

 

Stephen (http://faculty.ithaca.edu/ssweet/ ) is Associate Professor, Sociology, Ithaca College specialising in Work, Family and the Life Course.

 

Karen (http://www.theanalysisfactor.com/about/about-karen-grace-martin/ ) runs her own consultancy The Analysis Factor (http://theanalysisinstitute.com/)  on which there are dozens of entries for statistics, including 61 posts under SPSS alone (http://www.theanalysisfactor.com/category/statistical-software/spss/). 

 

She offers occasional free webinars (http://www.theanalysisfactor.com/webinars/) and you can sign up for future ones and download recordings of previous ones (http://www.theanalysisfactor.com/webinars/recordings/) but these may be a bit advanced for beginners. 

 

Specific postings include SPSS, SAS, R, Stata, JMP?  Choosing a Statistical Software Package or Two. http://www.theanalysisfactor.com/choosing-statistical-software/  and
The 3 Stages of Mastering Statistical Analysis. http://www.theanalysisfactor.com/the-3-stages-of-mastering-statistical-analysis/

 

I'm waiting for a review copy of the book, but looking at the publisher's blurb, checking out entries on Karen’s own site and seeing her profile, I think I've found another kindred spirit.  Although it's basically a statistics textbook, it uses data from the General Social Survey and is probably more appropriate for social science students than Andy Field's book.  Full details on my new page http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/sweet-and-grace-martin.html

 

John F Hall (Mr)

[Retired academic survey researcher]

 

Email:   [hidden email] 

Website: www.surveyresearch.weebly.com

Start page:  www.surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-without-tears.html

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Santosh Pande]

 

 

I am trying to run a two stage least squared regression (2sls) in SPSS.

 

While it is available under Analayze....Regression......2sls.... I am not clear how to do the following;

 

1.      How do I test the suspected variables for  endogenity?    Literature tells me about the Wu-Hausman F test and the  Durbin-Wu-Hausman chi-sq tests- can these tests be run in SPSS??

 

2.      How do I check, in SPSS, whether the instrument variables that I have used are  “Weak” or “Strong”?

 

3.      Also when I run the 2 sls I have the option to save the values for “Predicted” and “Residuals” as New Variables – from the Options box in SPSS. Can I use these to test for the weakness /strength of the instrument variables?

 

My queries are specific to SPSS only…. I am aware that the above questions  can be handled in E Views or STATA but would like to do these in SPSS….. to teach to my class who have access to SPSS only.

 

Best Regards

 

 

Santosh Pande

Mobile No.: [phone]

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view my research on my SSRN Author page:

http://ssrn.com/author=1714442 

 

 

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