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By Priya Chetty on February 5, 2015 69 Comments

We have already discussed about factor analysis in previous article (Factor Analysis using SPSS), and how it should be conducted using SPSS. In this article we will be discussing about how output of Factor analysis can be interpreted.

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By Priya Chetty on February 4, 2015 7 Comments

Factor analysis is used to find factors among observed variables. In other words, if your data contains many variables, you can use factor analysis to reduce the number of variables.

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By Priya Chetty on February 4, 2015 No Comments

A chi square (X2) statistic is used to investigate whether distributions of categorical variables differ from one another. Categorical variables like; gender of sample population which could be either male or female.

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By Priya Chetty on February 2, 2015 No Comments

When using this statistical test, you are testing the null hypothesis that 2 population means (average) are equal. The alternative hypothesis is that they are not equal.

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By Priya Chetty on February 2, 2015 No Comments

In my previous article “Introducing Data” we discussed about importing files and creation of data sheet in SPSS. Moving further, in this article I will be discussing about the most basic technique which can be applied within SPSS i.e. Frequency Testing.

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By Priya Chetty on January 26, 2015 4 Comments

Once you Click on “Cross tabulation”, a new dialog box would open, (See Figure 2), wherein you will see two boxes, Rows and Columns

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By Priya Chetty on January 23, 2015 No Comments

When researcher needs to perform selective analysis (for example, your research aim is to find out gender-based preferences for Lux soap. After you finish your survey, you may choose to do 2 separate analyses in SPSS: first of all males, then of all female respondents), then this command is used, i.e. selecting cases for analysis.

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By Priya Chetty on January 17, 2015 No Comments

If your data isn’t already in a computer-readable SPSS format, you can enter the information directly into the SPSS Data Editor (See Article Importing Files and creating datasheet in SPSS).

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