Quantitative research (analyzing)

Question 1

What is SPSS

Answer 1

Statistical package for the social sciences
powerful statistical software platform
lets you extract actionable insights form your data
includes all facets of the analytics lifecycle from data preparation and management to analysis and reporting

Question 2

What is data coding?

Answer 2

process of converting data into a form that can be analyzed
ex:
male =1
female = 2

Question 3

how do you calculate the central tendency for nominal ordinal and scale questions?

Answer 3

nominal: mode
ordinal: mode and median
scale: mode, median and mean

Question 4

what do you evaluate with univariate analysis for nominal vs ordinal vs scale questions

Answer 4

nominal: frequencies
ordinal: frequencies
scale: frequencies and descriptives

Question 5

What is the graphic to be used for nominal vs ordinal vs scale questions?

Answer 5

nominal: piec chart or bar chart
ordinal: pie chart of bar chart
scale: histogram of boxplot

Question 6

What is univariate analysis?

Answer 6

describe and synthesize research results by analyzing one variable at a time
first step of the analysis

Question 7

What are the two commands that can be used in SPSS to conduct a univariate analysis?

Answer 7

frequency distribution and descriptive statistics (mean median mode + stdev, variance, range)