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I do not have a textbook to recommend.
I strongly recommend that you make something like the following goals of your teaching and to communicate this to the students. " We cannot give you a graduate degree and years of experience in a single course. Major goals of this course are 1) to help you know when you should see a statistical/methodological consultant 2) provide sufficient background that you can work efficiently and effectively with statistical/methodological consultants." For your background I suggest "statistics as principled argument" you can find it, e.g., at http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-Principled-Argument-Robert-Abelson/dp/0805805281 It can help you decide what to emphasize in your course. Knowing why things are done in analysis is very important as it is in other processes like manufacturing. Also, I have often had good results by having students "reference" each others' syntax. This is a quality assurance practice from accounting and program evaluation. This means going through the syntax and checking whether it does what it purports to do. This helps the students internalize the importance or writing (and rewriting) syntax so that others can understand it. The use of syntax also helps students act as a "help desk" for each other. Art Kendall Social Research Consultants On 11/10/2011 9:08 AM, David Futrell wrote: ===================== To manage your subscription to SPSSX-L, send a message to [hidden email] (not to SPSSX-L), with no body text except the command. To leave the list, send the command SIGNOFF SPSSX-L For a list of commands to manage subscriptions, send the command INFO REFCARD
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David Depends how deep the statistics need to be. Have a look at the recommended SPSS Textbooks page on my website (some titles have links to my detailed comments and/or sample pages: some are more statistical than others) http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-textbooks.html Also the SPSS-based course Survey Analysis Workshop. It was originally designed for social science graduates with no previous experience of statistics or computing and used SPSS-X 4 on a Vax mainframe. The SPSS tutorials are being converted and updated for use with SPSS for Windows. http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/summary-guide-to-spss-tutorials.html They use syntax rather than drop-down menus and I haven’t got as far as the stats bits yet, but there is an extensive set of accompanying stats notes which were specially written for students from non-mathematical backgrounds. http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/uploads/2/9/9/8/2998485/statistical_notes_2011_draft.pdf Everything is available for free download. John F Hall From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of David Futrell
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David,
You might take a look at "Multivariate Data Analysis, " Seventh Edition, by Hair, et. al. One might describe it as having a marketing orientation. What is particularly interesting is how many of the techniques covered in the various SPSS short courses, such as those one might take with a training subscription, are included in the book. However, the book is not formally tied to SPSS point and click or syntax. It is the appropriate level technically for most MBA students, but to a certain extent, one would be jumping over some of the traditional topics covered in STAT 101 for business students. There have been times when I've been constrained to teach relevant statistics in one course to MBA type students. I have developed a couple of simple problems addressing the normal probability density function, and hypothesis testing and interval estimation using the sample mean and both the population and sample standard deviations. This permits one to quickly move to the multiple regression analysis, which I view as the most valuable tool of all. Sometimes when only one course is taken, and a traditional approach is taken, multiple regression analysis gets squeezed out. Good luck in obtaining permission to purchase SPSS. Only the Grad Pack and Faculty Pack, which have one year subscriptions, may satisfy budget constraints. But the students would obtain all modules except AMOS and the instructor would obtain all the modules. I am about to check whether SPSS 20 is now available with these "Packs." Greg Hildebrandt On Nov 10, 2011, at 6:08 AM, David Futrell wrote:
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David 3 hours? You must be joking! My (about-to-be-ex-) son-in-law got more hours than that, plus a CD of SPSS. Even then I had to show him what to do (No, I didn’t do his assignments for him) and lend him my copy of the (now unavailable except 2nd hand) Norusis 1987-89 Guide to SPSS. The stats content of his course was abysmal. As ViAnn said, MBA people are rarely or never going to do any analysis themselves. On the survey side, I would recommend Sunny Crouch’s book, which is specifically aimed at business: Marketing Research for Managers (http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/crouch--housden-2003.html ) On the stats side, que faire? Andy Field’s book is very good, but will they ever (have time to) read it? They might be better off looking at: Erik Mooi and Marko Sarstedt A Concise Guide to Market Research: The Process, Data, and Methods Using IBM SPSS Statistics (http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/mooi--sarstedt-2011.html) You can read chunks of it on-line and it has the new-fangled 2D barcodes which mobile-phones can scan. John F Hall PS Have a browse round the bits on my website, especially the page for web-based SPSS intros and tutorials http://surveyresearch.weebly.com/spss-intros-and-tutorials.html From: SPSSX(r) Discussion [mailto:[hidden email]] On Behalf Of David Futrell
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