Publisher's Synopsis
"Computing for Psychologists" is a course book, with worked examples, for students using computers to do statistical analysis. It concentrates on two of the most widely used computer programs, SPSS and MINITAB, and develops general keyboard skills and confidence in working with computers.;The book assumes no prior knowledge of computers and describes the whole process from preparing data for entry into the computer to interpretation of the computer output. It is designed for use in statistics courses at the undergraduate or graduate level to accompany statistics texts or hand-outs, but is also suitable for psychologists who have previously had statistics training and now want to know how to carry out statistical operations on the computer.;All of the major statistical analyses required in psychology are covered, including simple correlations, t-tests, non-parametric tests, independent groups and repeated measures analyses of variance, factor analysis, multiple regression, cluster analysis and discriminant function analysis.;At the back of the book are a number of sample sessions providing templates which can be readily adapted to suit the reader's needs.;For readers who are using SPSS or MINITAB on VAX computers with the VMS operating system or IBM-type personal computers with the MSDOS operating system, this book also includes an introduction to more general use of these computers so that the reader has everything he or she needs to know in one book.
