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Section 1: Histograms and Visual Interpretation

Refer to your Assessment 1 instructions for a list of assigned Section 1 variables. The example variable final is shown below.

Step 1. Open grades.sav in SPSS.

Step 2. On the Graphs menu, point to Legacy Dialogs and click Histogram…

Step 3. In the Histogram dialog box:

First, select your assigned variable for Assessment 1. Move it to the Variable box. The example of final appears below.

Second, select Display normal curve.

Third, move gender to the Rows box.

Fourth, click OK to generate the histogram output.

Step 4. The histogram output appears in SPSS. Copy your SPSS output. To do this, right-click on the image and then click Copy.

Step 5. Open a new Word document and right-click for the paste options. Paste the histogram output into the Word document. Below the histograms, write up your visual interpretations as described in your Assessment 1.

Section 2: Calculate and Interpret Measures of Central Tendency and Dispersion

Refer to the Assessment 1 instructions for a list of assigned Section 2 variables. The example variable final is shown below.

Step 1. On the Analyze menu, point to Descriptive Statistics and click Descriptives…

Step 2. In the Descriptives dialog box:

First, select your Assessment 1 variables. Move them to the Variable(s) box. The example variable final is shown below.

Second, click the Options button.

Third, select Mean, Std. deviation, Kurtosis, and Skewness. For Display Order, select Variable list.

Fourth, click Continue and then click OK. The descriptives output is generated in SPSS for your Assessment 1 variables.

Step 3. Copy the descriptive statistics output and paste it into your Word document. Below the output, write up your analyses as described in the Assessment 1 instructions.

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