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| Each chapter concludes with "Endnotes." | |
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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| The SPSS for Windows Package | |
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| Why This Workbook? | |
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| An Excursion Through the SPSS 12.0 Terrain | |
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| The Data Editor - Data View | |
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| The Data Editor - Variable View | |
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| The menu bar | |
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| The SPSS Viewer | |
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| The SPSS Syntax Editor (optional) | |
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| Switching and manipulating windows | |
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| Printing Output | |
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| Saving Data Files | |
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| Changing Options | |
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| Help! | |
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| Global help | |
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| Local help | |
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| Producing Descriptive Statistics | |
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| Social Work Issue: Children of Divorcing Couples | |
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| Reviewing the Data File Variables | |
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| Displaying the Data | |
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| Exploring a Data File | |
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| Means Procedure: Descriptive Statistics for Nested Subgroups | |
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| 'Splitting' the File | |
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| Bar, Line and Area Charts - Clustered, Stacked and Multiple | |
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| Creating related charts from scratch | |
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| Creating related charts directly from a clustered bar chart | |
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| Other types of multiple charts | |
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| Editing of Charts for Printing (Optional) | |
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| Output Summary and Exercises for Chapter | |
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| Chapter Summary and Implications for Practice | |
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| Data Transformation | |
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| Social Work Issue: Children 'Drifting' in Foster Care | |
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| Using the Compute Feature of SPSS | |
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| Creating an identification variable | |
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| Creating tentative placement history variables | |
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| Two variables resembling 'summated scales' | |
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| Recoding Variables | |
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| Recoding into the same variable | |
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| Recoding into different variables | |
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| Exploratory Descriptive Analysis of Placement History | |
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| Selecting Cases According to a Given Criterion | |
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| Output Summary and Exercises for Chapter 3 | |
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| Chapter Summary and Implications for Practice | |
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| Normal Distributions | |
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| Social Work Issue: Poverty and Income | |
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| Graphs of Normal Distributions | |