How Do You Calculate Descriptive Statistics In SPSS?
Need some help calculating descriptive statistics in SPSS? This brief tutorial explain how to get SPSS to report all of the following: * measures of central tendency such as the mean, median, and mode * measures of dispersion such as standard deviation and variance (sometimes represented in textbooks as “sigma” and “sigma squared”) * range (minimum and maximum) * standard error of the mean (SEM) * skewness (positive or negative skew) * kurtosis (leptokurtic/leptokurtotic, platykurtic/platykurtotic, or mesokurtic/mesokurtotic) After opening your data in SPSS, click on the “Analyze” menu. Go down to “Descriptive Statistics” (the second one down), and from there, select “Frequencies.” In the window that appears, you will see two large boxes; all of your variables will be present in the box on the left. Select all of the variables that you would like to calculate descriptive statistics and click the large arrow in the center of the screen to move them over to the box on the right. Click th
