This title describes how to conduct a range of univariate and multivariate statistical analyses using the latest version of the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, SPSS 11. Each chapter addresses a different type of analytical procedure applied to one or more data sets, primarily from the social and behavioural sciences areas. Each chapter also contains exercises relating to the data sets introduced, providing readers with a means to develop both their SPSS and statistical skills. Model answers to the exercises are also provided. Readers can download all of the data sets from a companion Web site furnished by the authors. ÍNDICE: A Brief Introduction to SPSS. Data Description and Simple Inference for Continuous Data: The Lifespans of Rats and the Ages at Marriage in the USA. Simple Inference for Categorical Data: From Belief in the Afterlife to the Death Penalty and Race. Multiple Linear Regression: Temperatures in America and Cleaning Cars. Analysis of Variance I: Does Marijuana Slow You Down and Do Slimming Clinics Work? Analysis of Variance II - Repeated Measures: The Stroop Test and Beating the Blues. Logistic Regression: Psychiatric Caseness and Depression in Adolescents. Survival Analysis. Reliability Analysis. Factor Analysis: The Olympic Decathlon. Cluster Analysis. Appendix: Solutions to Selected Exercises.