Practical Statistics
A Quick and Easy Guide to IBM® SPSS® Statistics, STATA, and Other Statistical Software
- David Kremelberg - DK Statistical Consulting Inc., University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
This book provides readers with step-by-step guidance on running a wide variety of statistical analyses in IBM® SPSS® Statistics, Stata, and other programs. Author David Kremelberg begins his user-friendly text by covering charts and graphs through regression, time-series analysis, and factor analysis. He provides a background of the method, then explains how to run these tests in IBM SPSS and Stata. He then progresses to more advanced kinds of statistics such as HLM and SEM, where he describes the tests and explains how to run these tests in their appropriate software including HLM and AMOS.
This is an invaluable guide for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students across the social and behavioral sciences who need assistance in understanding the various statistical packages.
It is a good guide to SPSS. Students feel that it is easy to read it and operate SPSS step-by-step according to the illustration of this ook.
A little too complex
Great introduction to entry level graduate statistics using both SPSS and Stata. Should be accessible for most beginning graduate students and provide them with a solid quantitative foundation,
The fact that it approaches statistical analyses on two fronts( SPSS and STATA) makes it handy for students who want to learn both at the same time. It is brilliant 2 in 1 book.
this book explains factor analysis with excellent way
This is a basic overview which may be useful to students that need a more general refresher of SPSS or STATA. Overall, a really clear and concise text.
book will be supplemental for those proceeding their analysis with SPSS. a very nice and comprehensive book. the other way around some confusing because of the content regarding STATA. so therefore it didn't reach the status of adoption for essential reading
A very useful textbook to understand basic statistics
A very good guide for basic practics in statistical methods with a main focus to SPSS, but also to STATA. My students preffered it (even if it is written not in their native language, german) because the usage of the statistical procedures is described with easy to understand screen-shots that can be recognised during their own work.
An excellent basic statistics text.
