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Statistics Tutorials
Statistics Tutorials to Accompany Investigating the Social World, 6th edition. The statistics tutorials provide a step-by-step, hands-on guide to using SPSS to generate basic statistics. You can perform all analyses in the tutorials with the special file from the 2006 General Social Survey, GSS2006TUTORIAL, that is available on the Study Site. This file contains a selected sample of 1500 cases from the GSS so that it can be used with the Student Version of SPSS, as well as with the standard version. The tutorials include all instructions required to generate the output you are asked to inspect. Just start the SPSS program and then open the GSS2006TUTORIAL file. Now you can start reading the first tutorial on descriptive statistics and working through the procedures it explains. The tutorials present the basics of descriptive statistics, crosstabulation, the elaboration method with crosstabulation, inferential statistics, and correlation and regression analysis (with short introductions to multiple regression and analysis of variance). Supporting information in Investigating the Social World, 6th edition. is in chapter 14, with some additional information relevant to the inferential statistics tutorial in chapter 5. Some of the steps in the Crosstabulation Tutorial involve recoding variables, which are then used in subsequent steps. However, these recoded variables are also included within the file so that the recoding steps can be skipped. Recoded variables are all named with the same names given in the tutorial recoding instructions, but with the suffix SET. You may have questions about how to interpret results, or what to do if you receive an error message. Don't worry! Just ask your instructor or teaching assistant for advice. You may want to work through the online SPSS Appendix to develop your familiarity with SPSS before you begin the tutorials.
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