01843cam a22002415a 450000100090000000300090000900500170001800800410003501000170007602000260009302000230011904000190014204200080016108200170016910000190018624500680020525000120027326000670028530000330035250509390038552002160132465000610154017389146AU-EpEBC20140206154913.0120717s2012 uik 000 0 eng  a 2012944559 a9781446249185 (Paper) a1446249182 (Paper) aDLCcDLCdNEMB apcc a519.50285536 aField, Andy P.00aDiscovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics /cAndy Field. a4th ed. aLos Angeles, CA :aLondon, UK :bSage Publications Ltd,c2012. a856 p. ;bpbk ;c27 x 20 cm. aWhy Is My Evil Lecturer Forcing Me to Learn Statistics? -- What Will This Chapter Tell Me? -- What The Hell Am I Doing Here? I Don't Belong Here -- Initial Observation: Finding Something That Needs Explaining -- Generating Theories And Testing Them -- Collect Data to Test Your Theory -- Analyzing Data -- Reporting Data -- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Statistics -- What Will This Chapter Tell Me? -- Building Statistical Models -- Populations And Samples -- Statistical Models -- Going Beyond The Data -- Using Statistical Models To Test Research Questions -- Modern Approaches to Theory Testing -- Reporting Statistical Models -- The IBM SPSS Statistics Environment -- What Will This Chapter Tell Me? -- Versions Of IBM SPSS Statistics -- Windows versus MacOS -- Getting Started -- The Data Editor -- Importing Data -- The SPSS Viewer -- Exporting SPSS Output -- The Syntax Editor -- Saving Files -- Retrieving A File. aUnrivalled in the way it makes the teaching of statistics compelling and accessible to even the most anxious of students, the only statistics textbook lecturers and their students will ever need just got better! 0aSocial sciencesxStatistical methodsxComputer programs.