Chapter 1. Research instrument design and sample -- Chapter 2. SPSS basics -- Chapter 3. Preliminary data analysis: An analysis before theanalysis -- Chapter 4. Factor analysis: combining related question-items into latent variables -- Chapter 5. Assess the quality of your instrument -- Chapter 6. Latent variable -- Chapter 7. Test of differences among groups -- Chapter 8. Test of correlations -- Chapter 9. Regression -- Chapter 10. Non-parametric tests
Summary
This book is written for research students and early-career researchers to quickly and easily learn how to analyse data using SPSS. It follows commonly used logical steps in data analysis design for research. The book features SPSS screenshots to assist rapid acquisition of the techniques required to process their research data. Rather than using a conventional writing style to discuss fundamentals of statistics, this book focuses directly on the technical aspects of using SPSS to analyse data. This approach allows researchers and research students to spend more time on interpretations and discussions of SPSS outputs, rather than on the mundane task of actually processing their data
