--Descriptive Statistics.
--Checking the reliability
of a scale.
Statistical Analysis Using SPSS
12.0
By Pallant
Descriptive Statistics
Categorical Variables
Continuous Variables
Assessing Normality
Checking For Outliers
Procedure for Categorical Variables
One-way analysis of
variance Kruskal-Wallis Test
Assumptions:1) 3) Linearity: It is
Sample Size: Ideally assumed that the
the overall sample size relationship between
should be 150+ the variables is linear.
2) Factorability of the 4) Outliers among
correlation matrix: It cases: It can have
should show at least sensitive outliers.
some correlations of
r=.3 or greater.
Procedure for factor analysis
--- is selected.
--- click on Continue.
Click on the Options button.
--- In the Missing Values section click on Exclude Pair
wise.
---In the Coefficient Display Format section click on
Sorted by size and suppress absolute values less
than___.Type the value of .3 in the box.
Click on continue and then OK.
Steps of Output from Factor Analysis
independent variable.
--- Click on Add.
--- In the section labelled Plots you should now see two
variables listed.
Click on Continue and then OK.
Interpretation of Output from two-way
ANOVA