Data Analysis Using Spss

QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS USING SPSS
AN INTRODUCTION
FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Pete Greasley

Quantitative Data Analysis Using SPSS

Quantitative Data Analysis Using SPSS
An Introduction for Health & Social Science
Pete Greasley

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Contents

Introduction

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1 A questionnaire and what to do with it: types of data and relevant analyses
1.1 The questionnaire 1.2 What types of analyses can we perform on this questionnaire? 1.2.1 Descriptive statistics 1.2.2 Relationships and differences in the data 1.3 Summary 1.4 Exercises 1.5 Notes

2 Coding the data for SPSS, setting up an SPSS database and entering the data
2.1 The dataset 2.2 Coding the data for SPSS 2.3 Setting... [continues]

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