SPSS Books

[Anthony Santella]

Does anyone know of any good SPSS books that would be good for a doctoral
student who has had a semesters worth of statistics (intermediate stats,
regression, design of experiments, sampling, SPSS, SAS) and needs
assistance working on their dissertation (involving multivariate
analyses)?  I have Julie Pallant's SPSS Survival Manual, but don't feel it
goes into much depth. Thanks. Anthony

[Gruen, Robert]

I recommend Marija Norusis's SPSS Statistical Procedures Companion and SPSS Advanced Statistical Procedures Companion, both available from Prentice Hall (see the link from the Store in spss.com).

Robert C. Gruen (Bob)
Senior Director, User Experience Team

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Anthony Santella
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:28 PM
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Subject: SPSS Books

Does anyone know of any good SPSS books that would be good for a doctoral
student who has had a semesters worth of statistics (intermediate stats,
regression, design of experiments, sampling, SPSS, SAS) and needs
assistance working on their dissertation (involving multivariate
analyses)?  I have Julie Pallant's SPSS Survival Manual, but don't feel it
goes into much depth. Thanks. Anthony

[Anthony Babinec]

James Stevens has a nice text entitled "Applied
Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences, 4th ed.,"
published by Lawrence Erlbaum, that runs examples
in SPSS or SAS and includes the example datasets.

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Anthony Santella
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:28 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: SPSS Books

Does anyone know of any good SPSS books that would be good for a doctoral
student who has had a semesters worth of statistics (intermediate stats,
regression, design of experiments, sampling, SPSS, SAS) and needs
assistance working on their dissertation (involving multivariate
analyses)?  I have Julie Pallant's SPSS Survival Manual, but don't feel it
goes into much depth. Thanks. Anthony

[Jeffrey Farmer]

I am using Andy Field's book, "Discovering Statistics Using SPSS."

Jeff



-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Anthony Santella
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 9:28 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: SPSS Books

Does anyone know of any good SPSS books that would be good for a doctoral
student who has had a semesters worth of statistics (intermediate stats,
regression, design of experiments, sampling, SPSS, SAS) and needs
assistance working on their dissertation (involving multivariate
analyses)?  I have Julie Pallant's SPSS Survival Manual, but don't feel it
goes into much depth. Thanks. Anthony

[Patricia Rego]

Anthony, Andy Field's book is great (for beginners, especially edition 2 which also incorporates how to report various tests etc.) ("Discovering Statistics Using SPSS", 2005, Sage, London).

For multivariate statistics, an excellent (and very user-friendly) text is "Using Multivariate Statistics" by Barbara G Tabachnick & Linda S Fidell,2001, Allyn & Bacon, Boston. It deals with SPSS, SAS & Systat, and also goes to the trouble of writing out results - something students often have difficulty with.

Cheers
Patricia

______________________________
Patricia Régo
Evaluation Officer
School of Medicine
The University of Queensland
(Ph: 61-7-33464683; [hidden email])
and
Skills Development Centre
Queensland Health
(Ph: 61-7-3636-6449; [hidden email])


-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Anthony Babinec
Sent: Wednesday, 27 September 2006 4:36 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: SPSS Books

James Stevens has a nice text entitled "Applied
Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences, 4th ed.,"
published by Lawrence Erlbaum, that runs examples
in SPSS or SAS and includes the example datasets.

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Anthony Santella
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:28 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: SPSS Books

Does anyone know of any good SPSS books that would be good for a doctoral
student who has had a semesters worth of statistics (intermediate stats,
regression, design of experiments, sampling, SPSS, SAS) and needs
assistance working on their dissertation (involving multivariate
analyses)?  I have Julie Pallant's SPSS Survival Manual, but don't feel it
goes into much depth. Thanks. Anthony

[Stevan Nielsen]

I add my endorsement to the Tabachnick & Fidell series, now available in a 2007, 5th edition, but available now.

An interesting bit of trivia: The covers of the 2nd and 3rd editions have images of Dr. Tabachnick belly dancing.

Stevan Lars Nielsen, Ph.D.
Clinical Professor
Clinical Psychologist
2518 WSC, BYU
Provo, UT 84602


-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion on behalf of Patricia Rego
Sent: Tue 9/26/2006 6:22 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: SPSS Books

Anthony, Andy Field's book is great (for beginners, especially edition 2 which also incorporates how to report various tests etc.) ("Discovering Statistics Using SPSS", 2005, Sage, London).

For multivariate statistics, an excellent (and very user-friendly) text is "Using Multivariate Statistics" by Barbara G Tabachnick & Linda S Fidell,2001, Allyn & Bacon, Boston. It deals with SPSS, SAS & Systat, and also goes to the trouble of writing out results - something students often have difficulty with.

Cheers
Patricia

______________________________
Patricia Régo
Evaluation Officer
School of Medicine
The University of Queensland
(Ph: 61-7-33464683; [hidden email])
and
Skills Development Centre
Queensland Health
(Ph: 61-7-3636-6449; [hidden email])


-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of Anthony Babinec
Sent: Wednesday, 27 September 2006 4:36 AM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: Re: SPSS Books

James Stevens has a nice text entitled "Applied
Multivariate Statistics for the Social Sciences, 4th ed.,"
published by Lawrence Erlbaum, that runs examples
in SPSS or SAS and includes the example datasets.

-----Original Message-----
From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of
Anthony Santella
Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:28 PM
To: [hidden email]
Subject: SPSS Books

Does anyone know of any good SPSS books that would be good for a doctoral
student who has had a semesters worth of statistics (intermediate stats,
regression, design of experiments, sampling, SPSS, SAS) and needs
assistance working on their dissertation (involving multivariate
analyses)?  I have Julie Pallant's SPSS Survival Manual, but don't feel it
goes into much depth. Thanks. Anthony

[oldpsycho]

A much shorter book is Cole Davis - SPSS Step by Step - http://www.coledavis.org