SPSS and Stats Review Suggestions.

[Nihl]

Hello! I'm a non-traditional student who has been out of school for a while. I had a Research Methods class this past year, but I really need to brush up on stats and SPSS before my first year in my PhD program. I picked up the text book Discovering Statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics http://www.amazon.com/dp/1446249182/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_ST1_dp_1

Do you have any other suggestions? YouTube classes, work books, other text books? Thanks in advance!

Ingrid

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[dumbledoresgirl]

That's actually the book I would have recommended, so you're on the right track. I don't have any other book recommendations, but honestly, I wouldn't waste too much time reviewing stuff. At least in my program, we pretty much started fresh in terms of stats (e.g., we learned what a standard deviation was on the first day of class). I would personally recommend enjoying your last few months of freedom and not do any work at all--I didn't listen when I was told that, and now I truly wish that I had.

 

[Phipps]

http://www.statsoft.com/textbook/

I found the above very helpful for a complete review of basic and advanced stats - not so much SPSS though. It's free!!!

 

[sctm2]

I picked up the text book Discovering Statistics using IBM SPSS Statistics http://www.amazon.com/dp/1446249182/ref=pe_175190_21431760_M3T1_ST1_dp_1

Do you have any other suggestions? YouTube classes, work books, other text books? Thanks in advance!

Ingrid

I love that book I took 2 stats classes in undergrad and one of the books we used is kind of old, but really goes into the concepts behind the formulas.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/020518460X/ref=cm_cr_dpvoterdr#RM5X3IOH2VXD0.2115.Helpful.Reviews

There is a student guide as well. A lot of my classmates found it very helpful, but I preferred the "Discovering Statistics" text as a supplement.

http://www.amazon.com/Statistical-Reasoning-Richard-J-Shavelson/dp/0205188893/ref=pd_cp_b_0

 

[Randypants1]

text is called something along the lines of "multiple regression:a primer"
GOLD.

 

[Nihl]

Thanks so much, everyone!

 

[Psych0502]

I wanted to bump this thread up. Does anyone have any additional suggestions? I'm in same boat as OP and would love to review before school!

 

[WisNeuro]

TBH, teh most you will ever learn is through fumbling around with the data. Outside of the Andy Field books, real world experience is what does it.

 

[eowyne]

I really like this book for practical nuts and bolts of using SPSS for a variety of types of analyses and writing up the results. It doesn't include very advanced techniques, but is helpful for many common ones:

http://www.amazon.com/Using-SPSS-Wi...d=1393970908&sr=8-1&keywords=green+using+spss