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Computing descriptives

Computing descriptives - SPSS Tutorial

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Computing descriptives

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- [Narrator] When your data are on a quantitative scale, that's sometimes called continuous, or interval, or ratio, then you want to have some basic descriptive statistics, like the mean and the standard deviation. And while it's possible to do those infrequencies, SPSS does have a specialized command for that. It's called "Descriptives." To look at that, let's go up here to "Analyze," and go to "Descriptive Statisics." And then we'll do "Descriptives." And when we get that, it's a really simple box. You just drag a few variables over to the side. I'm going to pick the five personality variables - that's per one through five, move those over, and let's just take a quick look at the options. By default, we get the mean, the standard deviation, the minimum and the maximum. You can also get the sum, the variance, the range, the standard error for the mean, as well as kurtosis and skewness, but I'm going to keep it just here…

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