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Using SPSS® for Research Methods and Social Statistics
Eighth Edition
- William E. Wagner-Huang - California State University, Dominguez Hills, USA
May 2025 | 272 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
This is the perfect companion for students who are learning to use the SPSS software to interpret and manage data. Students will appreciate author William E. Wagner-Huang’s step-by-step explanations of SPSS operating procedures and introductory statistical operations. The Eighth Edition uses version 29 of the software and incorporates results from the 2022 General Social Survey (GSS) as a dataset used in examples throughout the book. In response to user feedback, the author has expanded the sections on ANOVA and chi-square. The GSS datasets and codebooks for use with the text are available on an accompanying website.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 • Overview
Chapter 2 • Transforming Variables
Chapter 3 • Selecting and Sampling Cases
Chapter 4 • Organization and Presentation of Information
Chapter 5 • Charts and Graphs
Chapter 6 • Testing Hypotheses Using Means and Cross-Tabulation
Chapter 7 • Cross-Tabulation and Measures of Association for Nominal and Ordinal Variables
Chapter 8 • Correlation and Regression Analysis
Chapter 9 • Logistic Regression Analysis
Chapter 10 • Analysis of Variance
Chapter 11 • Editing Output
Chapter 12 • Advanced Applications
About the Author
References
Supplements
Student Study Site
The open-access Student Study Site includes the following:
- Datasets: The full 2022 GSS datasets used in examples throughout the book.
- Codebook: The 1972-2016 Cumulative Codebook and 2022 GSS Codebook provide all of the necessary information about the data: variables, sampling methods, etc., and how they’ve changed over time, so that they may be consumed intelligently by the user.
