Entering and Saving Data; Performing Descriptive Statistics
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Description
SPSS Lab Assignment #1
Dr. Anthony Santucci
PSY 2012: Statistics for the Social Sciences
Topics Covered: Entering and Saving Data; Performing
Descriptive Statistics
This assignment requires
students to:
1. Input the data shown on the page
2 into the SPSS data view spreadsheet;
2. Set up the parameters for each variable column in the spreadsheet via SPSS’s
variable
view setup screen;
3. Save the data/variable parameters in a file on your flash drive using the
file format name LNAME#1.sav (note,
“.sav” is the file extension that SPSS uses for
data files – SPSS automatically adds
this extension therefore there is no need to type
it as part of the file name);
4. In SPSS’s analysis module, calculate the basic statistics shown below for body weight,
amount
of time spent in the open areas maze, and amount of time spent in the
closed areas of the maze:
a. N
b. minimum score
c. maximum score
d. mean
e. standard deviation
5. Save the calculated statistics output in a file on tour flash drive using
the file
format name LNAME#1.spv (note, “.spv”
is the file
extension that SPSS uses for output
files – SPSS automatically adds this extension
therefore there is no need to type it
as part of the file name)
