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From: Thomas Meyer
tmeyer@ph.vccs.edu
276 656-0283
Patrick Henry Community College
Subject: Statistics - w/ Dr.Spencer Baker - Homework Assignment #2, Ch 3 - Problem 16, page81.
Date: February 16, 2004
Question:
Use the grouped frequency table you constructed for Exercise 17 in Chapter 2 to
complete part (a) below:
a. Calculate the mean, median, and mode for anxiety about doing mathematics (anxiety).
Answer:
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Question:
b. Use the SPSS program and SPSS data (career.sav) bank provided with your textbook to find the mean, median, and mode for anxiety about doing mathematics (anxiety).
Answer:
How to do it, step by step:
General
Algorithm:
Step 1: Get data
Step 2: Manipulate data
Step 3: Print out or save data
Step 1 - Get Data
Load the CD containing data;
Load SPSS;
Double-click SPSS;
File - Open -
Self.sav; Press Enter
Step 2: Manipulate data
2A - Get the mean,
mode, and median of the
Anxiety
variable
Choose Analyze - Descriptive Statistics - Frequencies
Select Anxiety
and arrow it into the Variables Box
Click Statistics
Click Mean, Median, and Mode
Click Continue
Click OK
Step 3: Print out or save data
Right-click the object
Copy the object
Select a location on Frontpage
Paste
Save
Refresh the web.
Here's the answers:
For additional information only:
Question:
c. What differences exist in the mean, median, and mode
for parts (a) and (b)? Account for any differences that exist in each
measure.
Answer:
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