Field, Andy P. creator text uik Los Angeles, CA London, UK Sage Publications Ltd 2012 4th ed. monographic eng

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856 p. ; pbk ; 27 x 20 cm. Unrivalled 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! Why 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. Andy Field. Social sciences Statistical methods Computer programs 519.50285536 9781446249185 (Paper) 1446249182 (Paper) 2012944559 DLC 120717 20140206154913.0 17389146