Jeffrey’s Amazing Statistics Program (JASP)

This guide will help you to:

1. Installing JASP
2. JASP Interface
3. Provide JASP with data
4. Data Exploration

1 – Installing JASP
1. To get started using JASP, you will first need to install it to your system. You can download
the JASP application using the link https://jasp-stats.org/download/
2. JASP application is currently available for users of Windows, Mac, and Linux. Pick the
operating system that suits your requirement.

Figure 1.1 Download page for JASP

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3. You can download a previous version of JASP in case you have trouble using the latest version
from https://jasp-stats.org/previous-versions
4. You can use the online version of the app from https://www.rollapp.com/launch/jasp.
2 – JASP Interface
The interface is the place from where you can access the various features of JASP. Figure 2.1
shows you the welcome interface.

Figure 2.1 Welcome Interface

2.1 Hamburger button (top left)

This button opens a pane that allows opening, saving, or exporting data.

2.2 Top bar (top middle)

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 This bar grants you access to a group of primary analyses
like T-test, ANOVA and so on.

2.3 Plus button (top right)

The plus button is an add-on for advanced analytic techniques that is beyond the scope
of this course.

3 - Provide JASP with data

Below you will find ways to uploading data to JASP.
1. Download and load data on JASP from your computer
 Click here to download the dataset (popular_regr_1) we will use to upload.
 Click hamburger button -> Open -> Computer -> Browse -> Open your file
 Watch the following applet for a quick demonstration of the steps above.
 Click here to see an image of what your output will look like

2. Download and load data on JASP directly from JASP data library
 JASP provides in-built datasets that are relevant for the specific type of analyses that one
would like to perform.
 Imagine again that we want to perform structural equation modeling (SEM), so we need
to load the dataset for the SEM.
 Click hamburger button -> Open -> Data Library -> Choose the statistical analysis you want
to perform -> Click SEM (Of course, you can choose other analyses depending on your
needs) -> Click Political Democracy
 Watch the following applet for a quick demonstration of the steps above.

4 - Data exploration

1. Understanding the data with numbers

Descriptive statistics

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  Let us investigate the descriptive statistics of the dataset (popular_regr_1) we previously
uploaded.
 Go to the top bar -> Click Descriptives -> Descriptive Statistics -> Move the six variables to
the ‘Variables’ section on the right by Clicking the right-headed triangle button after
selecting the six variables.

Figure 4.1

 Notice that the symbols with the variable names indicate the measurement level of the
corresponding variables.
 For example, a symbol that looks like a ruler means a scale variable (also called a
continuous variable). A symbol with three colorful circles refers to a nominal variable.
 JASP immediately prints the output on the right section of the screen after the variable is
moved.
 The left panel is the control panel, and the right panel is the output panel.

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 Figure 4.3

 Look at the output panel (right panel). You can see the table with descriptive statistics.
 To investigate in deep the various descriptive statistics, such as the median, the mode, the
range, the skewness, and so forth look at the control panel (left panel).
 Click the Statistics bar at the bottom left of the control panel and check Median and
Mode under Central Tendency; Range under Dispersion; and Skewness under
Distribution.

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 Figure 4.2
JASP again gives the descriptive statistics you selected immediately on the output panel.

Frequency tables
In case, there are categorical variables (nominal and ordinal variables), frequency tables show the
frequency of each category (a category is also called as a level in statistics).
Check Frequency tables (nominal and ordinal variables) in the control panel. The checkbox of
Frequency tables is roughly located in the middle of the control panel.

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 Figure 4.3
2. Getting insight from the visual inspection
Distribution plots

 If you want to inspect the distribution of your data of certain variables visually, making
distribution plots is the one you should perform.
 Click Plots bar in the control panel -> Check Distribution plots under Basic plots

Figure 4.4

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  JASP produces histograms for scale variables and frequency plots for categorical variables.
Variable names are indicated on top of the y-axis.
Boxplots
Boxplot is a good way of investigating the dispersion of data from the median and checking the
existence of outliers.

 Click Plots bar in the console panel -> Check Boxplots -> Check Boxplot element under
Boxplots
 Depending on your data and the requirements, you can add additional features in the
boxplot, for example, checking Label outliers indicates which case of the variable is an
outlier.

Figure 4.5
Scatter plots
Scatter plots are wise decisions when you want to describe the relationship between two
variables.
Click Plots bar on the control panel -> Check Scatter Plots -> Depending on your needs, you can
add additional features in the scatter plots.

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 Figure 4.6

Reference

 Heo, I., Veen, D., & Van de Schoot, R. (2020, July 3). Tutorial: JASP for beginners. Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4008280

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