Statistical Tests For Survey Data

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A Guide for Statistical Tests and Interpretations with SPSS

A Guide for Statistical Tests and Interpretations with SPSS is designed for students taking basic and advanced courses in statistics, taking an integrative and practical approach to learning statistics. It guides students through navigating SPSS outputs and writing quantitatively, dealing with technical and substantive interpretations without resorting to complex mathematical formulae. Starting from the basics of quantitative research methods and discussing descriptive and inferential statistical tests, this book provides a unique perspective of data analysis with SPSS. It makes a conscious effort to explore the various statistical methods one can use to dissect a data set using basic or advanced statistical techniques to achieve the best outcome. It covers the practical questions that arise while doing an assignment, final paper, or thesis – showing students how to proceed to the next step in their interpretation and analysis. It will provide quantitative methodology or data analysis students with core interpretations of SPSS outputs for key statistical tests. It will also demonstrate how to select and report the key trends and patterns of the data using descriptive and inferential statistics, the requirements and/or assumptions of each test, as well as the precise language to use for reporting on each test. With SPSS screenshots and step-by-step advice, this book will be useful for all undergraduate and graduate students in the social sciences and humanities, as a supplemental textbook to provide practical guidance on moving through all steps of statistical testing and analysis.
Testing Statistical Assumptions in Research

Comprehensively teaches the basics of testing statistical assumptions in research and the importance in doing so This book facilitates researchers in checking the assumptions of statistical tests used in their research by focusing on the importance of checking assumptions in using statistical methods, showing them how to check assumptions, and explaining what to do if assumptions are not met. Testing Statistical Assumptions in Research discusses the concepts of hypothesis testing and statistical errors in detail, as well as the concepts of power, sample size, and effect size. It introduces SPSS functionality and shows how to segregate data, draw random samples, file split, and create variables automatically. It then goes on to cover different assumptions required in survey studies, and the importance of designing surveys in reporting the efficient findings. The book provides various parametric tests and the related assumptions and shows the procedures for testing these assumptions using SPSS software. To motivate readers to use assumptions, it includes many situations where violation of assumptions affects the findings. Assumptions required for different non-parametric tests such as Chi-square, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal Wallis, and Wilcoxon signed-rank test are also discussed. Finally, it looks at assumptions in non-parametric correlations, such as bi-serial correlation, tetrachoric correlation, and phi coefficient. An excellent reference for graduate students and research scholars of any discipline in testing assumptions of statistical tests before using them in their research study Shows readers the adverse effect of violating the assumptions on findings by means of various illustrations Describes different assumptions associated with different statistical tests commonly used by research scholars Contains examples using SPSS, which helps facilitate readers to understand the procedure involved in testing assumptions Looks at commonly used assumptions in statistical tests, such as z, t and F tests, ANOVA, correlation, and regression analysis Testing Statistical Assumptions in Research is a valuable resource for graduate students of any discipline who write thesis or dissertation for empirical studies in their course works, as well as for data analysts.
Data Analysis with SPSS for Survey-based Research

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.