2yra016 ‘Annotated SPSS Outpt: Descriptive statiscs Hip wesetcoetig centr C3 Annotated SPSS Output Descriptive statistics ‘This page shows examples of how to obtain descriptive statistics, wit fovtntesexaring the ouput. The data used in these exams were exile 200 Nigh schocle students ane aro scores on Various tet, including since, math eadng avd socal stu (sees). The vanaol female is 2 detotomous vale coded tf Ue lode was emale and Ol male. In the syntax below, the get fie command is used to oa the dala into SPSS. In quetes, you need to sped where the data fles located on your computer. Remember at you nose to use th sav extension and tht ou need Yo end the command (an all ofamands) ith & ered. Thre ae Commands thal you can ues to get Geouptve eat or 2 continuous vast, ‘Wow how two: deseriptives and examine. Wa nave added & ‘options to eae o these commands, ans we have deleted unnecessary sisconmands to rake the sytan as short and understandable as posscte. fing that to examina conmand shay produce ao oF output. Ta 6an ba very Rap you know whal you ae log fr, but cane oven youre ct used Toi, I you esd [os ew numbers, you may want to use the descrptives command. Each as shown below. We wil use the bsk2.say datafile for our exam get File “c:\hsb2.sav" descriptives write /statistics = mean stddev variance min max semean kurtosis skewness. Descriptive Statisties | wma namo ian a es Ta Giavese | statete | stasase | Saiene | sid Gror | ianene | ctsete | Giatate | cus Evor | Gunate WT Soe moo] —soo] ero] szzrso) erom| saress | osoee | ar} 12 ]——-750 vaisriswse | 200 descriptives write /statistics = mean stddev variance min max semean kurtosis skewness. 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Thave are eeveral ferent woye of clodaing thee value, ‘SPSS daifes what tis dcng by inccatng that iis using "Definition 1. b, Tukey's Hinges - These are the fst, second ad this quale, They are calcdsted the way that Tukey ognally proposed when he came up wt Ido of bore. The values are not nerptatod rater, they are approximations that canbe iad wih ie calculation. Percentiles - These columns gen you the values of the variable a various percentiles. These tell you about the istbution ofthe variate, Per ‘a determined by ordering the values ofthe vote from lowest to highest, end then looking at whatever percent 10 see he value ofthe viable th For eval, nthe clu labeled 8, tho value o the vaiatle wile is 35. Because this S 8 weighed erage, SPSS Is taking into account the fad ‘hare ate several values a 3, which ay the weights average 36.08. (4 25. This ce 25% peconte, algo Known as the fst quart, 5. 50- This the 50% percent, also Kxou asthe median I measur of contra endancy. Its the mide number when the vies ate aan ‘scending (or descending) ert. Sometimes, the Medan isa beller measure of carial tendency than Ihe mean. Wis ess Sereive tna the mea ‘ereme abeentons f. 75- This is ho 75% parcel, also know as th third quartile. Histogram Histogram 5 z ary * 7 ae rss wtting score {A ictogram shows the frequency of values of availa, The sizeof te bine determined by default when you woe the examine command oo Fistogram, but you can use ether the graph or ggraph command to create a eslogram over which you can have much more contol. In ths hisogr ‘ach bn cons two vats. For examol, the fst in corr values 30 and 31, the second contains 32 and 38, and so On. The hiram ls ‘phic representation ofthe perce that were dspayed cbave. 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