SPSS Assignment 2: Paper and Exam Marks

The following data are available:

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198380M1100
23 85 86 M 4 098
21 8175F1076
218175F3082
206768F3099
267588F2120
249278F4115
267892M4126
308995F3129
217280F1086
198165M2080
177577M1070
197685F1099

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277975M4070
219093F3140

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229795M3165
219082M2115
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329590M2120
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Variables comprising the data are as follows:

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 Age
 Exam Marks (for a maximum of 100)
 Paper Marks (for a maximum of 100)
 Sex (M=Male, F=Female)
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 Year in College (1=Freshman; 2=Sophomore; 3=Junior; 4=Senior)

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 IQ

1) Data handling
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a) Enter the data in the computer.

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b) Provide appropriate variable labels, values labels, and scaling indications to the
variables.

2) Descriptives

a) Use Analyze, Descriptive statistics, Descriptives to summarize metric variables.

b) Recode the sex variable such that it is 1 for females and 0 for males.
Hint: Do this immediately in your own dataset, so do not enter M and F.

c) Use Analyze, Descriptive statistics, Frequencies to summarize nonmetric

variables.

d) Create a pie-chart for Year in College.

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 e) Create a histogram for IQ and include the normal distribution.

f) Make a scatter plot with exam grade on the x-axis and IQ on the y-axis. What do
you conclude?
Make a scatter plot with IQ on the x-axis and exam grade on the y-axis. What do you
conclude?

g) Make a scatter plot with sex on the x-axis and IQ on the y-axis. What do you
conclude?

h) Compute the mean IQ for males and for females. Conclusion?

i) Create a new dummy variable, IQdum, which is 1 if the IQ is larger than or equal
to 100, and 0 else.

j) Create a cross table between IQdum and Year in College

3) Data analysis

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a) Is the exam grade significantly larger than 75?

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b) Are there significant differences in the exam grade for men and women?

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c) Is there a significant difference between the exam grade and the paper grade?
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d) Are there significant differences in the paper grade for the four year groups?

e) Is the sample representative for the IQ level, for which it is known that 50% of the
population has an IQ below 100, and 50% has an IQ of 100 or higher.
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f) Obtain a correlation matrix for all relevant variables and discuss the results.
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g) Do a multiple regression analysis to explain the variance in paper grades using the
independent variables of: age; sex (dummy coded); and IQ, and interpret the
results.
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