All steps to perform SPSS tests mentioned in the course, will definitely help during (studying for) the exam. My year had an open-book exam of SPSS and this really helps.
Unit of Analysis: the ‘who’ or the ‘what’ one is analyzing
Levels of measurement: Nominal: categorization into groups, Nominal+oridnal= qualitative
No meaningful ranking of categories
Ordinal: Meaningful ranking along a given dimension
Distance between categories unequal
Interval: Meaningful ranking along a given dimension
Distance between categories is equal Interval+ratio= quantitative
Ratio: All properties of interval
Absolute and meaningful zero
Univariate: one variable
Bivariate: 2 variables
multivariate: more than 2 variables
Measures of central tendency: 1. Mean (interval/ratio): average =M
2. The median (ordinal & interval, ratio): also called 50 percentile.
3. Mode: the category with the largest amount of cases
HOW TO PRODUCE BAR CHART SPSS:
Analyze Descriptive statistics Frequencies… *insert variables* charts bar chart
Week 2:
Make a scatterplot on SPSS:
Graphs Legacy Dialogs Scatter/Dot simple scatter
Calculate Pearson’s r on SPSS:
Analyze Correlate Bivariate Pearson
Use pearsons if ratio and interval variable
Make a new variable on SPSS:
Transform Recode into different variable follow the steps. Afterwards give value labels in
variable view.
Creating a crosstab on SPSS:
Analyze Descriptive Statistics Crosstabs independent in column, dependent in row Cells
Column percentages.
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