SPSS

Question 1

How do you carry out the Shapiro-Wilk test in SPSS?

Answer 1

1. Analyze –> descriptive statistics –> explore
2. drag variable into dependent list
3. click ‘plots’
4. choose ‘histogram’ and ‘normality plots with tests’
5. continue –> ok
6. output window under ‘tests of normality
7. ‘sig’ under shapiro-wilk is the p-value
8. if p-value smaller than 0.05 it is not normally distributed: significantly different