Visual Displays for Categorical Variables IBM SPSS needed discussion help
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To access the General Social Survey dataset listed above, the username is akkissia.slay@waldenu.edu and the password is Pitbull93! Quantitative Reasoning is the class. Week 3: Descriptive Statistics is where you will find the information. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding this. I can also place the Skill Builder here if needed for extra help.
- Review this week’s Learning Resources and the Descriptive Statistics media program.
- For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Visual Displays for Categorical Variables and the Skill Builder: Visual Displays for Continuous Variables, which you can find by navigating back to your Blackboard Course Home Page. From there, locate the Skill Builder link in the left navigation pane.
- Review the Chapter 4 of the Wagner text and the examples in the SPSS software related to central tendency and variability.
- From the General Social Survey dataset found in this week’s Learning Resources, use the SPSS software and choose one continuous and one categorical variable Note: this dataset will be different from your Assignment dataset).
- As you review, consider the implications for positive social change based on the results of your data.
BY DAY 3
Post, present, and report a descriptive analysis for your variables, specifically noting the following:
For your continuous variable: (Place in a chart then a short explanation)
- Report the mean, median, and mode.
- What might be the better measure for central tendency? (i.e., mean, median, or mode) and why?
- Report the standard deviation.
- How variable are the data?
- How would you describe this data?
- What sort of research question would this variable help answer that might inform social change?
Post the following information for your categorical variable:
- A frequency distribution.
- An appropriate measure of variation.
- How variable are the data?
- How would you describe this data?
- What sort of research question would this variable help answer that might inform social change?