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Comparing proportions

Comparing proportions - SPSS Tutorial

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Comparing proportions

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- The simplest kind of data you can have is just a yes, no, on/off, true-false, a dichotomous or binary outcome, and that's also one of the simplest tests that you can possibly do, a single sample proportion test and fortunately, this is easy to do in SPSS, but to set the stage for this, let's start by doing a very brief exploration of two of the categorical variables in this data set. Let's come up here to Analyze, and go to Descriptive statistics and frequencies, now I'm going to take two variables, marital status and retired, and I'm choosing these in part because they're both dichotomous or binary variables, and we don't need need to do any of this Statistics because those are really for when you have quantitative data, though we do want some bar charts, and we might as well put them in descending count, so the most frequent categories to the left against the axis, and that's enough there, so let's hit that, and…

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