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Interpretation of results - SPSS Statistics Tutorial
From the course: SPSS for Academic Research
Interpretation of results
- [Instructor] In case you need it, I've included the output as 03_04_output in the exercise files, so let's take a look. Let's start at the beginning. We have a N of 50, that's the sample size, and luckily we have no missing cases, so that's good news, and planned (laughs). So, if we looked at the descriptives, again, we'll see that the mean is 64.37 and it gives us the confidence interval and skewness and kurtosis, everything looks pretty good. I can also see that the standard deviation is 2.83. Not too shabby, and it's another indication that the distribution is probably normally distributed, or at least not exhibiting severe kurtosis. Now, if I check out the skewness and kurtosis values more closely, it looks like the data are skewed left ever so slightly, and light tailed as indicated by the kurtosis value. So, there's a little bit of distribution that's in the tails, but to be honest, these values aren't too extreme and the distribution is fairly normally distributed, as we…
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