Introduction to Lab Section

Qihui Xu

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 Self-introduction
• What is your name?
• What program do you come from?
• What is your research interest?
• What is your hobby?

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 Self-introduction
• Qihui (Amber) Xu
• 3rd year PhD in Psychology
• Psycholinguistics

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Self-introduction

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 Self-introduction
• What is your name?
• What program do you come from?
• What is your research interest?
• What is your hobby?

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Syllabus

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 Why do we need statistics?
• Testing theories using numbers

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 An example
Practicing yoga can help people release the
anxiety.

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Tools for statistical analyses

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 Tools for statistical analyses
• SPSS

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 Tools for statistical analyses
• SPSS
• JASP
https://jasp-stats.org/
• R

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 Tools for statistical analyses
• SPSS
• JASP
https://jasp-stats.org/
• R

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 Tools for statistical analyses
• SPSS
• JASP
https://jasp-stats.org/
• R

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 Introduction to SPSS

•Variable View
•Data View
•Output Window

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 An example
Practicing yoga can help people release the
anxiety.

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Variable View

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Data View

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Output Window

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 Data Entering
• By hand
• Export from excel
File  Open  Data …

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 Files saving
What can you save?
Data view + Variable view (.sav)
Output window (.spv)

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Let’s practice!

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