This text provides comprehensive treatment of all relevant topics for SPSS for Windows, including an introduction to get users up and running plus extensive discussion of more complex topics utilizing SPSS 9.0. Substantive information about statistical techniques includes a brief discussion of each statistical technique, examples of how the statistic is applied, the assumptions underlying the statistic, a description of the effect size, a sample data set that can be analyzed, the research question associated with the data set, step-by-step instructions as to how to complete the analysis, a discussion of the results of the analysis, alternative analytic techniques when available and a visual display of the results using SPSS graphic options.