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Lab Project Phase 3: SPSS Output
Since both the variables the amount of church attendance (No_attend_church) and the a score representing understanding of Christian doctrine (Total_Score) are scale variables the coefficient of correlation is an appropriate measure of relationship between them and the scatter plot is appropriate to display the strength and direction of this relationship.
SPSS Output:
Table 1 contains the descriptive statistics for the amount of church attendance (No_attend_church) and the a score representing understanding of Christian doctrine (Total_Score).
Table 1 .
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Descriptive Statistics |
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Mean |
Std. Deviation |
N |
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Church Attendance |
55.2000 |
34.49895 |
10 |
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Total Understanding of Christian doctrine |
37.8000 |
4.26354 |
10 |
Table 2 contains the correlation matrix for the amount of church attendance (No_attend_church) and the score representing understanding of Christian doctrine (Total_Score).
Table 2.
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Correlations |
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Church Attendance |
Total Understanding of Christian doctrine |
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Church Attendance |
Pearson Correlation |
1 |
.205 |
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Sig. (2-tailed) |
|
.570 |
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|
N |
10 |
10 |
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Total Understanding of Christian doctrine |
Pearson Correlation |
.205 |
1 |
|
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Sig. (2-tailed) |
.570 |
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N |
10 |
10 |
SPSS Graph:
Figure 1 contains the scatter plot between the amount of church attendance (No_attend_church) and the a score representing understanding of Christian doctrine (Total_Score).
Figure 1 .
