Understanding Political Science Statistics using SPSS

A Manual with Exercises

Peter Galderisi (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2015
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-13144-6 (ISBN)

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This manual walks students through the procedures for analysis in SPSS and provides exercises that go hand-in-hand with online data sets. The manual complements the textbook Understanding Political Science Statistics: Observations and Expectations in Political Analysis, by Peter Galderisi, making it easy to use alongside the book in a course or as a stand-alone guide to using SPSS. Galderisi demonstrates how to use both syntax and GUI driven formats and shows sample results of the analyses. Filled with annotated screenshots from SPSS version 22 (but compatible with all versions, including the student version), the students will be guided through standard processes replete with examples and exercises to ready them for future work in political science research.

The diverse group of data sets provided include subsamples of both the 2008 and 2012 American National Election Studies, a Eurobarometer survey, single year and longitudinal congressional district files, the 2012 Comparative Congressional Election Study data set, and a comparative, crossnational country file. Versions with reduced case numbers and variables are also included that are compatible with the student version.

This manual (and a parallel Stata manual) are available as stand-alone products or packaged with the textbook Understanding Political Science Statistics.

Peter Galderisi has taught political science methods and statistics for more than three decades, and is currently a lecturer and local internship director in the Political Science Department at the University of California, San Diego. Previously, Galderisi was a Professor or Visiting Professor at Utah State, UCLA, UC Santa Cruz, and Cal State Fullerton. He specializes in U.S. political parties, campaigns and elections, American political development, interest groups, and election law.

Chapter 1: General Overview: Introduction to Using SPSS for Data Analysis

1.1 SPSS File Types

1.2 First Steps

Chapter 2: Setting Up the SPSS Data File for Analysis

2.1. GET FILE

2.2. WEIGHT

Chapter 3: Commonly Used SPSS Commands—Operationalization

3.1. RECODE

3.2. COMPUTE

3.3. IF

3.4. SELECT IF

Chapter 4: Commonly Used SPSS Commands—Data Analysis

4.1. FREQUENCIES

4.2. MEANS

4.3. T-TEST

4.4. NPAR: Tests for Proportions

4.5. CROSSTABS

4.6. REGRESSION

Chapter 5: Executing Your Syntax and Saving Your Output

Appendix A: Codebooks for Data Files

Appendix B: An Example of a Term-Wide Set of Computer Exercises-ANES2012A

Erscheinungsdatum	02.06.2016
Zusatzinfo	27 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	191 x 235 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Computerprogramme / Computeralgebra
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
ISBN-10	1-138-13144-X / 113813144X
ISBN-13	978-1-138-13144-6 / 9781138131446
Zustand	Neuware