Introduction

I wrote this book for myself. I remember being a graduate student, working on my dissertation and struggling to make sense of the statistics I needed to analyze my dissertation. I wanted a book to help me understand SPSS that would use examples from my field, but none existed. This book was born of that longing. This book is written to help those new to the field of statistics feel they have some idea of what they are doing when they analyze their own data, and how to do it using a statistical program.