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Making statistics-and statistical software-accessible and rewarding

This book provides readers with step-by-step guidance on running a wide variety of statistical analyses in IBM® SPSS® Statistics, Stata, and other programs. Author David Kremelberg begins his user-friendly text by covering charts and graphs through regression, time-series analysis, and factor analysis. He provides a background of the method, then explains how to run these tests in IBM SPSS and Stata. He then progresses to more advanced kinds of statistics such as HLM and SEM, where he describes the tests and explains how to run these tests in their appropriate software including HLM and AMOS.

This is an invaluable guide for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students across the social and behavioral sciences who need assistance in understanding the various statistical packages.

Customer Reviews & Comments
As an undergrad in Sociology, one of the unsavory aspects of my studies is the quantifying (and qualifying) of virtually every type of individual and group behavior known to the human race. My problem is, I'm terrible with numbers and equations. And if that isn't enough, the textbooks I've been forced to buy (at astronomical prices) only make the topics foggier. That's why I'm taking the time to comment on this great book. It's obvious that Practical Statistics was written for folks like me. The author is certainly hip to everything I've been struggling with for the last couple of years. SPSS and Stata are explained so a high school kid could easily understand them. And the chapters on regression (including linear, ordered, logistic, negative binomial and Piosson) have brought clarity to these concepts that I could never have imagined. What I particularly like is the step-by-step, no nonsense approach with real-to-life examples. This book is so much more useful than the expensive texts I was required to purchase for my stats courses. I'm sure I could have graduated without this book but I'm so glad to have found it because it's been truly useful to me in understanding something that has never come easy.

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