MCOM 390 Lecture 1: SPSS Guidelines
25 Mar 2020
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Spss guidelines: statistic package for social signs, widely used, user friendly, data view vs. Variable view: dependent variable is onebeing observed (effect) Independent variable is one being manipulated (cause: create codebook variable view (don"t need to do on test) Assuming it is numeric, click cell to change it *mostly numeric. Use sting when respondents use words to answer questions: label type in the exact/specific question here, values where you assign labels to numbers. If you have a likert scale question, you don"t need to label entire thing just label. In numeric expression: type in mean, then (: put all questions used to measure variable in () with comma between, use recoded questions, run analysis/hypothesis testing, null hypothesis= opposite to research hypothesis. If less then . 05 there is a significant correlation between the variables. [sig. (2-tailed): only look at r-value if less than . 05.
