"An EasyGuide to Research Design & SPSS provides clear and concise guidance for selecting the most appropriate design and statistical analysis to test a research hypothesis. By connecting experimental design with an appropriate statistical test for data analysis, the EasyGuide details the exact steps for inputting and analyzing data in SPSS, offers a "how-to" for interpreting the output from SPSS analyses, and provides guidance in formatting SPSS output into APA style."--Publisher's website.

Marriage-'til death do us part-stats and methods-why they belong together -- The two faces of correlation -- Why your type of data really does matter: nominal, ordinal, interval, or ratio -- To KISS (keep it simple student) or to complicate matters -- Why SPSS and not other software, your calculator, fingers, or toes -- SPSS data hygiene: columns, and labels, and values ... oh my! -- Tell me about it: descriptive statistics -- Celebrate your independence! Between-groups designs -- Everybody plays! Repeated-measures designs -- Complicating matters: advanced research designs -- How do I know if that relationship is real? Correlations -- Statistics charades: two variables, two categories ... is it a chi square? -- Mapping your decisions: you can get there from here -- APA results sections -- Did I do that? Taking advice from the experts.