Statistical Data Analysis Using Your Personal Computer

What should you see when you are analyzing real data using one of the majorstatistical packages such as SPSS SAS or Microsoft Excel? This book will showyou and ... » 

What should you see when you are analyzing real data using one of the majorstatistical packages such as SPSS SAS or Microsoft Excel? This book will showyou and will walk you through the output from a variety of statisticaloutcomes such as data reflecting a single common factor. Through the use ofactual demonstrations the authors supply readers with the computer programsnecessary to simulate data sets with the statistical properties usuallymultivariate that are often assumed of real data. The reader is then shown howto analyze these data sets and how to interpret the results. The book beginswith a general introduction to doing research and tips for using the threestatistical packages. The authors next explore how to create data structuresand perform univariate bivariate and multivariate simulations. They then showhow to use the simulations to understand common statistical algorithms andtheir outputs when doing a basic correlation analysis exploratory factoranalysis confirmatory factor analysis multidimensional scaling multipleregression discriminate analysis classification analysis and MANOVA.Throughout the book the authors provide the reader with helpful guides suchasHint boxes to give readers tips for executing particular techniques using thestatistical software packages.Steps that show each stage of a procedure such as importing an Excel fileinto SAS.Problems end each chapter so the reader can practice the techniques described.Web Site with the SAS and SPSS programs and sample data. «