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This book distinguishes itself from other SPSS resources through its unique integration of the research process (including design)
and the use and interpretation of the statistics. Designed to help students analyze and interpret research data, the authors demonstrate how to: choose the appropriate statistic based on the research design, interpret SPSS output, and write about the output in a research paper. The authors describe the use and interpretation of these statistics in a user-friendly, non-technical language. The book prepares students for all of the steps in the research process, from design and data collection, to writing about the results.
The new edition features SPSS 14.0 for Windows, but can also be used with older and newer versions. There are also new problems, expanded discussions of effect sizes, and an expanded appendix on getting started with SPSS. The book features discussions of writing about outputs, data entry and checking, reliability assessment, testing assumptions, and descriptive, inferential, and nonparametric statistics. Several related statistics are included in each chapter. SPSS syntax, along with the output, is included for those who prefer this format. Two realistic data sets are available on the book’s CD and are used to solve the end of chapter problems.
SPSS for Introductory Statistics, 3/e provides helpful teaching tools:
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all of the key SPSS windows needed to perform the analyses;
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interpretation sections and questions to help students better understand the output;
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lab assignments organized the way students proceed when they conduct a research project;
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extra SPSS problems for practice in running and interpreting SPSS; and
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helpful appendices on how to: get started with SPSS, write research questions, and create tables and figures.
This book is an ideal supplement for courses in either statistics or research methods taught in departments of psychology, education, and other social and health sciences. The
Instructor's Resource CD features PowerPoint slides and answers to and additional information on the questions and problems.
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Not that Happy.......2007-03-31
I was not very pleased with the guide. I wanted to understand how to code dummy variables and the guide was not useful for that. Also, I wanted to do a multiple regression analysis and there are only a few pages devoted to this topic. The guide is more useful as a review of general statisics and basic functions
great for beginners.......2005-03-18
I had little experience in statistics and really needed a STEP-BY-STEP guidebook that was light on theories and "robust" on the practical stuff. I was able to go through this book in two days, having now felt rather comfortable with the SPSS program. The authors have a way of making statistics very approachable using simple words. They also have examples on how you would write up the stat results for reports and publications.
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Financial Markets in Continuous Time
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In modern financial practice, asset prices are modelled by means of stochastic processes, and continuous-time stochastic calculus thus plays a central role in financial modelling. This approach has its roots in the foundational work of the Nobel laureates Black, Scholes and Merton. Asset prices are further assumed to be rationalizable, that is, determined by equality of demand and supply on some market. This approach has its roots in the foundational work on General Equilibrium of the Nobel laureates Arrow and Debreu and in the work of McKenzie. This book has four parts. The first brings together a number of results from discrete-time models. The second develops stochastic continuous-time models for the valuation of financial assets (the Black-Scholes formula and its extensions), for optimal portfolio and consumption choice, and for obtaining the yield curve and pricing interest rate products. The third part recalls some concepts and results of general equilibrium theory, and applies this in financial markets. The last part is more advanced and tackles market incompleteness and the valuation of exotic options in a complete market.
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The disparity between rich and poor countries is the most serious, intractable problem facing the world today. The chronic poverty of many nations affects more than the citizens and economies of those nations; it threatens global stability as the pressures of immigration become unsustainable and rogue nations seek power and influence through extreme political and terrorist acts. To address this tenacious poverty, a vast array of international institutions has pumped billions of dollars into these nations in recent decades, yet despite this infusion of capital and attention, roughly five billion of the world's six billion people continue to live in poor countries. What isn't working? And how can we fix it?
The Power of Productivity provides powerful and controversial answers to these questions. William W. Lewis, the director emeritus of the McKinsey Global Institute, here draws on extensive microeconomic studies of thirteen nations over twelve years—conducted by the Institute itself—to counter virtually all prevailing wisdom about how best to ameliorate economic disparity. Lewis's research, which included studying everything from state-of-the-art auto makers to black-market street vendors and mom-and-pop stores, conclusively demonstrates that, contrary to popular belief, providing more capital to poor nations is not the best way to help them. Nor is improving levels of education, exchange-rate flexibility, or government solvency enough. Rather, the key to improving economic conditions in poor countries, argues Lewis, is increasing productivity through intense, fair competition and protecting consumer rights.
As The Power of Productivity explains, this sweeping solution affects the economies of poor nations at all levels—from the viability of major industries to how the average consumer thinks about his or her purchases. Policies must be enacted in developing nations that reflect a consumer rather than a producer mindset and an attendant sense of consumer rights. Only one force, Lewis claims, can stand up to producer special privileges—consumer interests.
The Institute's unprecedented research method and Lewis's years of experience with economic policy combine to make The Power of Productivity the most authoritative and compelling view of the global economy today, one that will inform political and economic debate throughout the world for years to come.
Customer Reviews:
Interesting economic perspective on various countries. .......2006-10-26
This book is an interesting economic perspective on why some countries prosper and others don't. Overall, the book is heavily pro-American and the fact that the author uses the U.S. as the benchmark for his comparisons with other countries is a testament to that. The rosy explanations on the U.S. chapter reinforces the belief that it is a pro-US book.
However, it beautifully covers some of the flaws found in third world economies, especially interesting on its analysis in Brazil and India. The answer is simple, government chokes and distorts market and is much to blame for poverty and low productivity in third world countries.
All in all its a good book, but its focus is too U.S. based. Not that there is nothing wrong with that, but books that show U.S. as a near utopia and the rest of the world as problem plague are not to my liking in general, simply because no country on earth is perfect, thus whatever defects exist in the U.S. economy should had been mentioned. As an economist, I was dissapointed with the way the author avoided discussing potential problems in U.S. economy, but was more than pleased with its assessment as to why third world economies don't function as smooth and first world economies.
Limitations of economies world wide.......2006-03-30
This is an outstanding book if you want to gain some understanding of the strengths and weakensses of economies world wide. This book is essentially a group of chapters describung the differences of various other world economies compared against the US economy. The revelations of the problems in some of those economies is very revealing. For example, if you worry at night about the Indian economy, you will sleep much better after reading his chapter of the many ways the Indian government distorts their markets and guarantees bad results. You will also be amazed that only 10% of the land has clear ownership, meaning one must be extordinarily careful or one can end up in a long legal entanglement. The description of the laws forbidding large players to participate in certain sectors of their economy also is revealing.
Similarly, the descriptions of the problems of the Brazilian economy with its underground economy and formal economy is also very illuminating. Large rconomy of scale businesses competing with informal off the books busninesses. Since the off the books businesses pay lousy wages and pay no taxes they can compete with the larger businesses which have economies of scale. Mr Lewis also points out how the sector which does compete within the legal rules have a very heavy tax burden which retards growth. The legacy of hyperinflation, a well known
phenomenon in South America also means that obtaining a mortgage is impossible, houses must be paid for cash on the barrelhead, as nobody will take a 30 year risk on inflation there.
Mr Lewis's book has chapters on representative economies from all over the world. Japan, Russia, Korea, India, Western Europe,
Brazil are included. The only place of high interest which is not included is China. Regardless, the information contained is fascinating.
I also gained some new insights from this book and perhaps a bit of new respect for certain sectors. I must say Mr Lewis makes some very interesting points which have certainly increased my regard for the retailing and service sectors of an economy by pointing out some of the low tech manners in which they have innovated to increase productivity. He also shows how inefficient certain other economies are because they dont allow foreign competitiors to operate in retailing in their economies and the dramatic inefficiencies created as a result.
Overall I rate this as one of the best books I have read in a long time.
A great book.......2006-02-25
I was happy to see many of the questions I've had for years, answered. The book is very well written for the non-economist who wants to be informed about the major economic problems of the world.
I also purchased 'DOING BUSINESS IN 2006' published by the World Bank. It corroborates the general ideas presented in "The Power of Productivity" to a great extent. A great book.
Productivity rules in one particular economic doctrine.......2005-11-16
Marx once said that he was not a Marxist [Attributed by Engels, letter to C. Schmidt, 1890]. It looks like William Lewis is not allowed that luxury, for in a sense the claim that it is productivity that matters most is a pure Marxists claim.
So there is a contradiction. The book that promotes "free market" extremism like "free market no matter what" in its major thesis looks suspiciously close to Marxist philosophy.
Actually extremes meet and the author's idea "If poor countries improved productivity and balanced their budgets, they would have plenty of capital for growth from domestic savers and foreign investors" is a clear sign that he is living in some Utopia and does not undestand the role of third world debt as a major instrument for controlling the governments of those countries. This process is designed to perpetuate itself whereby debt replicates itself on an ever greater scale.
For example odious debt of former communist countries was never cancelled and people of xUSSR paid and will pay huge prices for this. Legally, odious debt is debt that resulted from loans to an illegitimate or dictatorial government that used the money to oppress the people or for personal purposes.
Rich nations also ncur debts, but often the wealthier and more powerful ones are able to use various means to avoid getting into the dilemmas and problems the poor nations get into. It's easier to have debt if your own currency is the world reserve currency.
That means that globalization like medicine should not be applied uncritically. The real question is about the right doze of everything. Here is a couple of nice quotes for Asia Times Review of the same book, the review that debunks the myths propagated by the book:
"Of the world's 6 billion people, 5 billion live in countries with per capita gross domestic product (GDP) 25% or less of the US figure; in fact, a majority of the poor live where GDP is less than 10% of Uncle Sam's. Particularly troubling, author William W Lewis says, Japan was the only country to go from poor to rich during the past century, though he adds that Japanese government development strategies credited with the advance were a hindrance, not a help. "
"The failure of free-market radicalism to solve crises and deliver real, sustainable economic growth has prompted a reassessment. Perhaps wrenching open developing markets to global competition without reference to local conditions and politics is not the best prescription in every case. They also note that the fastest-growing economy over the past two decades features 'socialism with Chinese characteristics'. "
Excellent book despite flaws.......2005-02-11
There is an excellent book about productivity. Bill Lewis was head of McKinsey, the international consulting firm, for 12 years. They did a lot of studies of different business sectors around the world under his leadership, and this book pulls all of these together. It is a compelling case for free-market competition, which is what drives higher productivity and creates a larger pie for everyone to share.
I think Lewis is pretty much misguided about macro-economic issues (I think the reason that there were so many international crisis in 1998 was because of the Fed's mistakes in monetary policy causing the dollar to deflate), and he believes Jared Diamond's arguments about why Western culture has been so successful (Diamond is not a master of logic, and ignores or discounts other possible explanations, such as are presented in IQ and the Wealth of Nations), and Lewis makes mistakes in the way he averages productivity across sectors (you really need to look at absolute productivity in some way for averages to be meaningful), but it is still an excellent book because of the compelling case he makes for competition driving productivity increases, and the way he lays out the barriers to productivity growth in different nations.
I also wish he had spent more time explaining why higher productivity makes everyone better off. He does cover this to some extent, but not with the power that it deserves.
Still, 5 stars because the good stuff is outstanding.
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Capital Mobility: The Impact on Consumption, Investment and Growth
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The industrialized world has recently witnessed a dramatic increase in the volume of international capital movements, in the forms of borrowing and lending, bond transactions and foreign direct investment. Many non-OECD countries have also embarked on extensive programs of capital market liberalization. Papers in this volume--the proceedings of a CEPR joint conference with the Bank of Israel and Tel Aviv University's Pinhas Sapir Center for Development--examine the implications of these developments for economic fluctuations and fiscal and monetary policies under alternative exchange rate regimes, as well as other topics of contemporary interest.
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There is a "missing idea" in economic thought: the relationship between an increase in consumption and increased productivity. It disappeared thanks to an attitude which Heckscher referred to as a "fear of goods". This book attempts to trace the absence of this idea, its origins and consequences, from ancient times to the present day.
Cosimo Perrotta seeks in these pages to establish the theoretical importance of the idea of "consumption as an investment" as well as to conduct an in-depth study into the changing and contradictory attitudes towards consumption in the history of economic thought.
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