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This guide is for practicing statisticians and data scientists who use IBM SPSS for statistical analysis of big data in business and finance. This is the first of a two-part guide to SPSS for Windows, introducing data entry into SPSS, along with elementary statistical and graphical methods for summarizing and presenting data. Part I also covers the rudiments of hypothesis testing and business forecasting while Part II will present multivariate statistical methods, more advanced forecasting methods, and multivariate methods.
IBM SPSS Statistics offers a powerful set of statistical and information analysis systems that run on a wide variety of personal computers. The software is built around routines that have been developed, tested, and widely used for more than 20 years. As such, IBM SPSS Statistics is extensively used in industry, commerce, banking, local and national governments, and education. Just a small subset of users of the package include the major clearing banks, the BBC, British Gas, British Airways, British Telecom, the Consumer Association, Eurotunnel, GSK, TfL, the NHS, Shell, Unilever, and W.H.S.
Although the emphasis in this guide is on applications of IBM SPSS Statistics, there is a need for users to be aware of the statistical assumptions and rationales underpinning correct and meaningful application of the techniques available in the package; therefore, such assumptions are discussed, and methods of assessing their validity are described. Also presented is the logic underlying the computation of the more commonly used test statistics in the area of hypothesis testing. Mathematical background is kept to a minimum.
List of contents
1 Getting Started with SPSS.- 2 Graphics and Introductory Statistical Analysis of Data.- 3 Frequencies and Crosstabulations.- 4 Coding, Missing Values, Conditional and Arithmetic Operations.- 5 Hypothesis Tests Concerning Means.- 6 Nonparametric Hypothesis Tests.- 7 Bivariate Correlation and Regression.- 8 Multivariate Regression.- 9 Logistic Regression.
About the author
Abdulkader Aljandali is Senior Lecturer at Coventry University in London. He is currently leading the Stochastic Finance Module taught as part of the Global Financial Trading MSc. His previously published work includes Exchange Rate Volatility in Emerging Economies, Quantitative Analysis and IBM® SPSS® Statistics, and Multivariate Methods and Forecasting with IBM® SPSS® Statistics. Dr. Aljandali is an established member of the British Accounting and Finance Association and the Higher Education Academy.
Motasam Tatahi, PhD, is a specialist in the areas of Macroeconomics, Financial Economics and Financial Econometrics at the European Business School, Regent's University London, where he serves as Principal Lecturer and Dissertation Coordinator for the MSc in Global Banking and Finance at The European Business School-London. He has covered such modules as econometrics for PhD students, advanced macroeconomics at SOAS, and international trade at UCL-University of London. He is author of Privatisation Performance in Major European Countries since 1980 (Palgrave Macmillan) and articles in several international economics journals.
