SPSS 16.0 Brief Guide

By SPSS Inc

TheSPSS 16.0 Brief Guide provides a set of tutorials to acquaint you with the components of the SPSS system. Topics include reading data, using the Data Editor, examining summary statistics for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0136036015
• ISBN13: 9780136036012
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: SPSS Inc.
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.5" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

A great value on a guide to an indisensable software product--SPSS

Everyone in the biological and behavioral sciences uses SPSS statistical analysis software to crunch numbers in their field. SPSS has been around for nearly twenty years and is not much changed from year to year; if it were, hundreds of thousands of experienced users would have to learn it all over again and the software would grow unpopular. I bought this guide to last year's edition 16.0 for a pittance. If I learned best through reading a text, this text would be more than adequate, since it features pictures illustrating the program's steps on every page. But since the book was accompanied by a CD that walks the student through each of the program's steps in setting up a file and analyzing its data, using screens identical to the commercial version, there is little or no reason to consult the text, as the CD/tutorial stands firmly on its own. The combination book and CD are therefore all one needs to completely master SPSS, and buying last year's guide proves to be an extraordinary value for very little money.

Good in conjuntion with a class

If you are even looking at this book, then you probably are resigned to the fact that you are going to use SPSS in some capacity. This book is nice as it walks you through many of the features in the SPSS software package with screen-shots. Of course, it is set up for a PC user, which I am not, so not everything jives perfectly, but it doesn't degrade from the instruction. My only comment for buyers, is that as the title implies, it is a brief guide on how to use the software. Also, if you don't already know basic / intermediate statistics, the manual is not set up to teach you. Price tag is an ouch for a 200 page book, especially since this was not the only textbook for my course!