An Spss Companion to Political Analysis
ISBN: 9781608716876 | 1608716872
Edition: 4thFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Cq Pr
Pub. Date: 7/19/2011
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In this much-anticipated revision of Pollock#x19;s popular SPSS workbook, students dive headfirst into actual political data and work with a software tool that prepares them for future political science research. Students learn by doing with guided examples, more than 120 screenshots, and step-bystep instructions. Compatible with all releases of SPSS (12.0 through 19.0, as well as the student version), the new fourth edition includes brand-new or completely revised exercises. Two new datasets (2008 NES and 2008 GSS) and two revised datasets (on... MORE
| 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 | |
| Note... MORE | |
| 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 | |
| Descriptions of Constructed Variables in GSS2008 | |
| Descriptions of Variables in States | |
| Description of Variables in World | |
| Description of Variables and Constructed Scales in NES2008 | |
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