INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS FOR AGRICULTURAL ECONOMISTS USING SPSS

Scott Swinton and Ricardo Labarta

No 11747, Staff Paper Series from Michigan State University, Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics

Abstract: This document is a primer in statistics for applied economists using the SPSS statistical software. It is intended for use with a one-week training workshop designed to acquaint research professionals with basic statistical procedures for analyzing socio-economic survey data. The document introduces users to database creation and manipulation, exploratory univariate and bivariate statistics, hypothesis testing, and linear and logit regression. The text is supported with 19 text boxes that illustrate how procedures can be applied to a farm survey dataset.

Keywords: Research; Methods/; Statistical; Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.11747

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