Entering and Saving Data; Performing Descriptive Statistics

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SPSS Lab Assignment #1

Dr. Anthony Santucci
PSY 2012: Statistics for the Social Sciences
Topics Covered: Entering and Saving Data; Performing Descriptive Statistics

                This assignment requires students to:

1. Input the data shown on the page 2 into the SPSS data view spreadsheet;
2. Set up the parameters for each variable column in the spreadsheet via SPSS’s variable
    view setup screen;
3. Save the data/variable parameters in a file on your flash drive using the
    file format name LNAME#1.sav (note, “.sav” is the file extension that SPSS uses for
    data files – SPSS automatically adds this extension therefore there is no need to type
    it as part of the file name);
4. In SPSS’s analysis module, calculate the basic statistics shown below for body weight,
     amount of time spent in the open areas maze, and amount of time spent in the
     closed areas of the maze:
               a. N
               b. minimum score
               c. maximum score
               d. mean
               e. standard deviation
5. Save the calculated statistics output in a file on tour flash drive using the file
    format name LNAME#1.spv (note, “.spv” is the file
    extension that SPSS uses for output files – SPSS automatically adds this extension
    therefore there is no need to type it as part of the file name)


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