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SPSS for psychologists, 3rd edn
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Nicola Brace, Richard Kemp, Rosemary Snelgar. Published by Palgrave Macmillan, Australia, 2006, £17.99, pp 450 (softcover). ISBN 1403987874
For many undergraduate students and clinical researchers, statistical computing packages are a necessary evil that goes with the job. A plethora of books abound that use longwinded and complicated explanations of statistics with little emphasis on the “how to”. Rather than enlighten the reader, they serve only to confuse him or her further! Happily, this book is not one of those. This text is a practical guide to performing statistical tests with SPSS for Windows (versions 12 and 13) and is aimed at the undergraduate or novice …