Featuring just the right amount of information and instruction, Kirkpatrick and Feeney's no-nonsense, streamlined guide provides a thorough introduction to Versions 12.0 and 13.0 of the powerful SPSS software. With this guide, students can learn how to use SPSS to perform all of the statistical procedures covered by a typical introductory statistics text - from histograms and descriptive statistics through correlation, regression, t-tests, and analysis of variance. Writing for students who need to use SPSS to complete homework problems or to conduct statistical analysis for a research project, Kirkpatrick and Feeney keep their explanations as simple and practical as possible.