The Statistics Coach: The Statistics Coach

Lance W. Roberts is a professor in the sociology department and a fellow of St John's College at the University of Manitoba. He recently completed a term as director of the Winnipeg Area Study, a survey research unit. For over three decades he has taught undergraduate and graduate methods and statistics courses and is the author of several books and dozens of articles on topics related to social trends, ethnic relations, education, and inequality.Karen Kampen is a doctoral candidate in the sociology department's PhD program at the University of Manitoba, where she holds the position of lab instructor. Her main areas of interest are environmental sociology and research methods. She has spent 15 years working in universities as a research associate, collecting and analyzing data for long-term projects such as a health-care program evaluation and books on social trends and poverty. She also serves as an instructor for introductory sociology and undergraduate methods courses.

• 'You Play the Way You Practise': A Preface for Students ; 1. An Introduction to SPSS ; 2. Basic Univariate Analyses ; 3. The Shape of Distributions and Z-Scores ; 4. Data Transformation ; 5. Bivariate Tables ; 6. Trivariate Tables ; 7. PRE Measures for Crosstabs ; 8. Correlation and Regression ; 9. Inference and Chi Square ; 10. Inference and t-tests ; 11. Samples and Inferences ; 12. Putting It All Together ; SPSS Essentials ; Notes ; About the Authors ; Index