SPSS Statistics Portfolio - Quantitative Analysis

The response should be 800 words excluding references and an appendix.

Using the Gender, Weight and Height dataset provided, you must complete a series of tasks and write
up your results in a report style.

Instructions

Using the dataset, you will need to:

• Create a hypothesis/research question you can test using the data provided, using correlation
analysis.
• Clean your dataset.
• Conduct descriptive statistics and check that your data meet the assumptions for correlation
analysis.
• Conduct the correlation analysis.

Your report will then need to include:

• Your chosen hypothesis/research question and a brief rationale for it.
• How you cleaned your dataset.
• Descriptive statistics.
• Results of your correlation analysis – ensuring these are written in APA style.

You are required to submit the following two documents:

1. Your written report.
2. Your SPSS Output file (showing your analysis output).
3. SPSS table and screenshot added to Appendix
4. All result numbers from SPSS must be referenced and explained in the text.

Other requirements
- Use British English
- USE APA Referencing at least 12-15 referenced not older than 2013
- Do not use GPT chat or similar AI. The first try failed due to the same!

Details of analysis required:

-- REWORK TO REQUIREMENTS

10/50 DATA ANALYSIS: You have made a good effort in conducting and interpreting your data. However,
it is not clear how you clean your data. You need to report on the impossible and missing values (how
many did you have). Then explain how you identify outliers and how you dealt with those. You then
needed to check the assumptions of the parametric correlation test. Check the normality of your data
(histograms, Q-Q plots, skewness and kurtosis, K-S test), the data type and linearity. You did not report
on those. You can correlate only two-level categorical data with continuous using Pearson correlation. I
could not open the files you attached with your analysis. That’s why it was suggested to add it as an
appendix saved like a word document.

12/30 APPLICATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: The rationale for your research question
and hypothesis was nicely presented. However, you did not justify your research with scientific
evidence. In your discussion, there was no reflection on your data. In this part of your report, you reflect
on the literature you mentioned in your introduction and the limitations and future suggestion of your
research.

8/15 STRUCTURE & PRESENTATION: a good presentation and structure overall. Some elements could be
addressed to meet the academic conventions of report writing. There are no citations or reference
section in your report.

3/5 USE OF RELEVANT SOURCES: you presented a good balance of resources on your research topic.