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    <title>Statistics for research</title>
    <subTitle>with a guide to SPSS</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Argyrous, George</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1963-</namePart>
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    <publisher>SAGE</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2011</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2011</dateIssued>
    <edition>3rd ed.</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xx, 585 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Pt. 1. AN INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL ANALYSIS. Variables and Their Measurement -- Setting up an SPSS Data File -- Pt. 2. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: GRAPHS AND TABLES. The Graphical Description of Data -- The Tabular Description of Data -- Using Tables to Investigate the Relationship between Variables: Crosstabulations -- Measures of Association for Crosstabulations: Nominal Data -- Measures of Association for Crosstabulations: Ranked Data -- Multivariate Analysis of Crosstabs: Elaboration -- Pt. 3. DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS: NUMERICAL MEASURES. Measures of Central Tendency -- Measures of Dispersion - - The Normal Curve - - Correlation and Regression - - Multiple Regression - - Pt. 4. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: TESTS FOR A MEAN. Sampling Distributions -- Introduction to Hypothesis Testing and the One-Sample Z-Test for a Mean -- The One-Sample T-Test for a Mean -- Inference Using Estimation and Confidence Intervals -- The Two-Samples T-Test for the Equality of Means -- The F-Test for the Equality of More Than Two Means: Analysis of Variance -- The Two Dependent Samples T-Test for the Mean Difference -- Pt. 5. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: TESTS FOR FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTIONS. One-Sample Tests for a Binomial Distribution -- One-Sample Tests for a Multinomial Distribution -- The Chi-Square Test for Independence -- Frequency Tests for Two Dependent Samples -- Pt. 6. INFERENTIAL STATISTICS: OTHER TESTS OF SIGNIFICANCE. Rank-Order Tests for Two or More Samples -- The T-Test for a Correlation Coefficient -- Pt. 7. ADVANCED TOPICS. Statistical Power -- Generating New Variables in SPSS: The Recode, Compute and Multiple Response Commands.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">George Argyrous.</note>
  <note>Previous ed.: 2005.</note>
  <note>Includes index.</note>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Social sciences</topic>
    <topic>Statistical methods</topic>
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  <subject>
    <topic>Social sciences</topic>
    <topic>Statistical methods</topic>
    <topic>Computer programs</topic>
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