Practical Statistics
A Quick and Easy Guide to IBM® SPSS® Statistics, STATA, and Other Statistical Software
- David Kremelberg - DK Statistical Consulting Inc., University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
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.
This is a hurried and poorly executed book which gives a very superficial treatment to the subject matter. Moreover, given the cover price, I would have expected a little more finesse with the final look of the tables/charts. There were countless mistakes which just made me think it hadn't been edited thoroughly, which is both down to the author and the editor.
Good easy book to understand and helpful for students
Some errors in numbers.
Explanations are short,not detailed.
Example are a few.
too advanced for my students
I find this book good as a resource for using SPSS and other statistical software. It provides step-by-step instructions about how to run each statistical test and provides graphical displays for each step. This book is useful as a supplement to the main text. I'm adopting it for the doctoral research class and I'm considering it also for my intro stats class.
The book is an excellent source for my Management doctoral students working on applied research involving regression. I partcilarly liked the exposition of difficult concepts using to the point phrases followed by easy to comprehend mathematical notaion and/or formulae. Excellent reference textbook!
Useful but not to be essential text as it doesn't have enough detail.
Kremelberg's Practical Statistics makes simplicity out of complex; a must have book for doctoral students who need to understand SPSS.
This is a very interesting and easy-to-read book. One of the best on \surface-teaching" or intuitive teaching of stats (i.e. the book does not present complex mathematical formulas but relies instead on statistical software outputs). I will strongly recommand the book to any graduate student using stats in their master's degree thesis and will add it to my course outline.
Thanks for putting together this great book!
good explanations, too simplistic for doctoral level work.
