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Comparing one mean to a population: One-sample t-test

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Comparing one mean to a population: One-sample t-test

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- [Instructor] When you have a single quantitative variable that is one that is scaled or measured on an interval or ratio level scale, the simplest test you can do with that is a one-sample T test, and that's where you're comparing the mean of a sample to some hypothesized population value. And so let's take a look at how to do that in SPSS. Let's start by doing a little bit of background work on one of our variables. Let's come up here to Descriptive Statistics and over to Frequencies, and what I'm going to do is I'm going to choose a variable called job satisfaction. It's on a five point rating scale. But let's get a few things here. Let's get some statistics, let's get the mean, the standard deviation, the minimum, maximum, and the quartiles. Let's take a look at charts. Let's get a histogram with a normal curve on top of it. And then let's turn off the frequency tables because we're dealing with something where…

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