Pollock , Phillip H. III.

An IBM SPSS companion to political analysis / Phillip H. Pollock III, [and] Barry C. Edwards - Sixth Edition - London : CQ Press, c2020. - 285 pages : illustrations ; 28cm.

Figures -- Preface -- 1: Introduction to SPSS -- 2: Descriptive Statistics -- 3: Transforming Variables -- 4: Making Comparisons -- 5: Making Controlled Comparisons -- 6: Making interferences about sample means -- 7: Chi-Square and Measures of Association -- Correlation and Linear Regression -- 9: Dummy Variables and Interaction Effects -- 10: Logistic Regression -- 11: Doing Your Own Political Analysis -- Appendix.

"In Pollock and Edwards's trusted workbook, students dive headfirst into actual political data and work with a software tool that prepares them for not only future political science research but also the job world. Students learn by doing, with new guided examples, annotated screenshots, step-by-step instructions, and exercises that reflect current scholarly debates in American political behavior and comparative politics. This Sixth Edition of An IBM® SPSS® Companion to Political Analysis features thoroughly revised and updated datasets and is compatible with all post-12 releases of SPSS."

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SPSS (COMPUTER FILE)--HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--RESEARCH--HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC.
POLITICAL STATISTICS--COMPUTER PROGRAMS--HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC. 4. ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE--COMPUTER PROGRAMS--HANDBOOKS, MANUALS, ETC.

JA 86 .P63 2020