Descriptive Statistics in SPSS
PSY-380-Introduction to Probability and Statistics
Project 1: Descriptive Statistics in SPSS
A study was done to explore the number of hours elementary children watched television over the course of two weeks. The results are shown below.
|
Hours of television watched by elementary children |
|
56 |
|
46 |
|
12 |
|
62 |
|
39 |
|
24 |
|
59 |
|
51 |
|
39 |
|
52 |
|
28 |
|
41 |
|
10 |
|
64 |
|
27 |
|
0 |
|
34 |
|
5 |
|
55 |
|
32 |
|
42 |
|
24 |
|
14 |
|
63 |
|
1 |
|
63 |
|
52 |
|
58 |
|
52 |
|
26 |
Use SPSS to analyze the data from the study.
1. Identify the level of measurement used in this study.
2. Run descriptive statistics on the data. Report the mean, median, mode, range, variance and standard deviation for the number of hours elementary children watched TV over the course of two weeks. Copy and paste the SPSS output.
3. Create a frequency distribution table to display the data. Copy and paste the SPSS output. (Be sure to refer to the MindTap video "Descriptive Statistics and Frequencies.")
4. Create a histogram to display the data based on the table in question 3. Copy and paste the SPSS output.
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