What is the quickest way to review basic descriptive statistics for a variable?
You can either use the Quick Basic Stats option accessible from the flying menu in all spreadsheets and Scrollsheets, or the data listing option Values/Stats in the Quick Stats Graphs menu in the following manner. Highlight any cell in the desired variable in the spreadsheet (or Scrollsheet), then press the toolbar button Quick Stats Graphs to bring up the menu of statistical graphs and options. Alternatively, press the right-mouse-button and select Quick Stats Graphs from the flying menu. Then double-click on the Values/Stats of… option (or highlight this option and press Enter). The resulting window will display information about the selected variable, a sorted list of its values, and descriptive statistics. The descriptive statistics can be copied to the Clipboard by pressing the Copy button (see the lower part of the window). Note that a more extensive selection of descriptive statistics and other basic statistics (correlations, frequency tables, distributions, analyses by…, et
You can either select Descriptive Statistics from the Basic Statistics and Tables (Startup Panel) (accessible from the Statistics menu) or click the Values/Stats button in the Variable specifications dialog, as illustrated below. To display the Variable specifications dialog, double-click on the variable name in the spreadsheet. Alternatively, right-click on the variable name and select Variable Specs from the shortcut menu. After you click the Values/Stats button, the resulting dialog displays information about the selected variable, a sorted list of its values, and descriptive statistics. The descriptive statistics can be copied to the Clipboard by clicking the Copy button (see the lower part of the window in the illustration below).
