SOC350H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Count Data, Standard Score, Linear Regression
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Does not follow a distribution for ols. You ask spss to create scale, it will count what you categorize as 1. If you have victimization in random labels need to recode data in the same direction so one in this variable is one in the other. Why is ols problematic too few variables added together you wont get statistical sig. Not enough variation in that range due to less cases. Only go with adding index if you have five possible outcomes. Things you add have to be same. If one variable is coded one and two spss will just add two. When you add variables together they have to be exactly same otherwise adding things that are not comparable. Compute add variables that you are going to add into total variable and use operations to add them. If you have 15 possibilities then max you can have is 15.
