An SPSS companion to political analysis. ([2012])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Philip H. Pollock III.
• Authors: III, Pollock, Philip H
• Contents: Getting Started; Dataset CD; Full Version SPSS and Student Version SPSS: What Is the Difference?; Installing Student Version; Notes; Introduction to SPSS; The Data Editor; A Must-Do: Setting Options for Variable Lists; The Viewer; Selecting, Printing, and Saving Output Exercises; Notes; Descriptive Statistics; Interpreting Measures of Central Tendency and Variation; Describing Nominal Variables; Describing Ordinal Variables; Describing Interval Variables; Obtaining Case-level Information with Case Summaries; Exercises; Notes; Transforming Variables; Using Recode; Recoding a Nominal-level Variable; Recoding an Interval-level Variable; Using Visual Binning; Collapsing an Interval-level Variable with Visual Binning; Using Compute; Exercises; Notes; Making Comparisons; Using Crosstabs; Using Compare Means; Graphing Relationships; Using Line Chart; Using Bar Chart; Using the Chart Editor; Exercises; Notes; Making Controlled Comparisons; Using Crosstabs with Layers; Obtaining and Editing Clustered Bar Charts; Using Compare Means with Layers and Obtaining Multiple Line Charts; Example of an Interaction Relationship; Example of an Additive Relationship; Exercises; Notes; Making Inferences about Sample Means; Using Descriptives and One-Sample T Test; Using Independent-Samples T Test; Exercises; Notes; Chi-square and Measures of Association; Analyzing an Ordinal-Level Relationship; Summary; Analyzing an Ordinal-Level Relationship with a Control Variable; Analyzing a Nominal-Level Relationship with a Control Variable; A Problem with Lambda; Exercises; Notes; Correlation and Linear Regression; Using Correlate and Regression --> Linear; Producing and Editing a Scatterplot; Exploring Multivariate Relationships with Regression --> Linear; Exercises; Notes; Dummy Variables and Interaction Effects; Regression with Dummy Variables; Interaction Effects in Multiple Regression; Using Compute for Interaction Variables; Exercises; Notes; Logistic Regression; Using Regression --> Binary Logistic; Logistic Regression with Multiple Independent Variables; Working with Predicted Probabilities: Models with One Independent Variable; Working with Predicted Probabilities: Models with Multiple Independent Variables; The Sample Averages Method; The Probability Profile Method; Exercises; Notes; Doing Your Own Political Analysis; Five Doable Ideas; Political Knowledge; Economic Performance and Election Outcomes; Judicial Selection and Public Opinion; Electoral Turnout in Comparative Perspective; Congress; Doing Research on the U.S. Senate; Finding Raw Data; How to Code Raw Data; Two Possible Coding Shortcuts; Using the SPSS Text Import Wizard; Writing It Up; The Research Question; Previous Research; Data, Hypotheses, and Analysis; Conclusions and Implications; Notes; Appendix; Table A-1 Descriptions of Constructed Variables in GSS2008; Table A-2 Descriptions of Variables in States; Table A-3 Description of Variables in World; Table A-4 Description of Variables and Constructed Scales in NES2008;
• Edition: Fourth edition
• Publisher Details: Washington DC : CQ Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xv, 268 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 320.0285555; Political science -- Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Political statistics -- Computer programs -- Handbook, manuals, etc; Analysis of variance -- Computer programs -- Handbook, manuals, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452242170; 1452242178
• Related ISBNs: 9781608716876
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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