Manfred te Grotenhuis (PhD, Sociology, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) is an associate professor of quantitative data analysis at Radboud University Nijmegen and an affiliate of the Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS). He does research and teaching in inferential statistics, age-period-cohort models, multilevel modeling, event history analysis, and SPSS syntax. Grotenhuis has published extensively in a wide variety of journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Demography, and the International Journal of Epidemiology. He has been teaching statistics to students at Radboud University Nijmegen since 1995 and has written several introductory books on SPSS and statistics. Grotenhuis is the recipient of his university¿s biennial teaching award.

Chapter 1: Statistics Program SPSS
What Is SPSS?
The Purpose of SPSS
Structure of the Book
Fictitious Data Set
Using the Windows in SPSS
Using SPSS Windows
SPSS File Types
Chapter 2: SPSS Files
Introduction
Open SPSS Files
Create and Modify Data Files
Load Excel Files
Save SPSS Files
Assignments
Chapter 3: Data Modifications
Introduction
Recode Variables
Create New Variables
Select Cases
Split Files
Assignments
Chapter 4: Descriptive Statistics
Introduction
Frequency Tables
Pie Charts
Boxplots
Graphs With Chart Builder
Contingency Tables
Export to Word Processing Programs
Assignments
Chapter 5: Inferential Statistics
Introduction
Associations in Contingency Tables
Binomial Test for a Proportion
One Sample t-test
t-Test for Comparing Two Groups
Analysis of Variance
Correlation
Regression Analysis
References
Assignments