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You're reading from Data Analysis with IBM SPSS Statistics Implementing data modeling, descriptive statistics and ANOVA

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787283817

Length 446 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

IBM SPSS

Concepts

Data Analysis

Authors (2):

Ken Stehlik-Barry

Anthony Babinec

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Installing and Configuring SPSS FREE CHAPTER

2. Accessing and Organizing Data

3. Statistics for Individual Data Elements

4. Dealing with Missing Data and Outliers

5. Visually Exploring the Data

6. Sampling, Subsetting, and Weighting

7. Creating New Data Elements

8. Adding and Matching Files

9. Aggregating and Restructuring Data

10. Crosstabulation Patterns for Categorical Data

11. Comparing Means and ANOVA

12. Correlations

13. Linear Regression

14. Principal Components and Factor Analysis

15. Clustering

16. Discriminant Analysis

Hierarchical cluster analysis example

The example data is the USA violent crime data previously analyzed via the Principal components analysis section in Chapter 14, Principal Components and Factor Analysis. Recall that the data consists of state-level data for the 50 states of the USA and also the District of Columbia. The data came from the year 2014, the most recent year available on our source website. For a full description of the data, see Chapter 14, Principal Components and Factor Analysis.

The goal is to use the seven crime rate variables as inputs in a hierarchical cluster analysis. The variables are:

MurderandManslaughterRate
RevisedRapeRate
RobberyRate
AggravatedAssaultRate
BurglaryRate
Larceny_TheftRate
MotorVehicleTheftRate

The overall problem size is small. The data is complete; there is no missing data. We are primarily interested in description, and there is...

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Authors (2)

Ken Stehlik-Barry

Kenneth Stehlik-Barry, PhD, joined SPSS as Manager of Training in 1980 after using SPSS for his own research for several years. Working with others at SPSS, including Anthony Babinec, he developed a series of courses related to the use of SPSS and taught these courses to numerous SPSS users. He also managed the technical support and statistics groups at SPSS. Along with Norman Nie, the founder of SPSS and Jane Junn, a political scientist, he co-authored Education and Democratic Citizenship. Dr. Stehlik-Barry has used SPSS extensively to analyze data from SPSS and IBM customers to discover valuable patterns that can be used to address pertinent business issues. He received his PhD in Political Science from Northwestern University and currently teaches in the Masters of Science in Predictive Analytics program there.

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Anthony Babinec

Anthony J. Babinec joined SPSS as a Statistician in 1978 after assisting Norman Nie, SPSS founder, in a research methods class at the University of Chicago. Anthony developed SPSS courses and trained many SPSS users. He also wrote many examples found in SPSS documentation and worked in technical support. Anthony led a business development effort to find products implementing then-emerging new technologies such as CHAID decision trees and neural networks and helped SPSS customers successfully apply them. Anthony uses SPSS in consulting engagements and teaches IBM customers how to use its advanced features. He received his BA and MA in Sociology with a specialization in Advanced Statistics from the University of Chicago and teaches classes at the Institute for Statistics Education. He is on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Chapter of the American Statistical Association, where he has served in different positions including President.

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