Descriptive statistics is the term given to the analysis of data that helps describe, show or

summarize data and also interpret the data.

characteristics of a set of data is called descriptive statistics.

Frequency Analysis is a part of descriptive statistics. In statistics, frequency is the
number of times an event occurs. Frequency Analysis is an important area of
statistics that deals with the number of occurrences (frequency) and analyzes
measures of central tendency, percentage.
Reliability Analysis: This measures the overall consistency of the
items that are used to define a scale.

Cronbach's (alpha) is used to estimate of the reliability of a test. Or, measure of

internal consistency, that is, how closely related a set of items are as a group.
Crosstabs is an SPSS procedure that cross-tabulates two variables, thus displaying
their relationship in tabular form.
Spearman's Rank correlation coefficient is a technique which can be used to summarize the
strength and direction (negative or positive) of a relationship between two variables.

Spearmen is basically the non-parametric version of pearson correlation.

(rho) or as , is a nonparametric measure of statistical dependence between two
variables.

Regression analysis is a statistical measure that attempts to determine the strength of the
relationship between one dependent variable and a series of other changing variables (known as
independent variables)
R-squared is a statistical measure of how close the data are to the fitted regression line. It is also
known as the coefficient of determination, or the coefficient of multiple determination for
multiple regression.