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Data Analysis with IBM SPSS Statistics

By : Ken Stehlik-Barry, Anthony Babinec
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Data Analysis with IBM SPSS Statistics

By: Ken Stehlik-Barry, Anthony Babinec

Overview of this book

SPSS Statistics is a software package used for logical batched and non-batched statistical analysis. Analytical tools such as SPSS can readily provide even a novice user with an overwhelming amount of information and a broad range of options for analyzing patterns in the data. The journey starts with installing and configuring SPSS Statistics for first use and exploring the data to understand its potential (as well as its limitations). Use the right statistical analysis technique such as regression, classification and more, and analyze your data in the best possible manner. Work with graphs and charts to visualize your findings. With this information in hand, the discovery of patterns within the data can be undertaken. Finally, the high level objective of developing predictive models that can be applied to other situations will be addressed. By the end of this book, you will have a firm understanding of the various statistical analysis techniques offered by SPSS Statistics, and be able to master its use for data analysis with ease.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
4
Dealing with Missing Data and Outliers
10
Crosstabulation Patterns for Categorical Data

Example of one-to-many merge - Northwind database

The Northwind sample database is a publicly-available fictitious simple transaction processing database that is used here to illustrate the recording, storing, retrieving, and editing of data related to procurement and fulfillment activities of the company, Northwind Traders. If you have access to recent versions of Microsoft Access, you can install the database from a built-in Database Template.

The Northwind database contains a set of data tables. For our purposes, we will work with two tables from the Northwind database: Customers and Orders. Note that the original creators of the database and its tables have taken shortcuts in creating some of the fields and field values in the sense that values don't vary in some places in which they ought to in reality. For our purposes, we have converted the original source tables to...