To: sbaker@odu.edu
From: Thomas Meyer
tmeyer@ph.vccs.edu
276 656-0283
Patrick Henry Community College
Subject: Statistics - w/ Dr.Spencer Baker - Homework Assignment #3, Ch 8 - Problem 07, page223.
Date: March 19, 2004
Here's the general algorithm for doing this problem:
1. Get the data
2. Manipulate the data
To do a Pearson Product Moment Correlation PPCM:
(Refer to textbook instruction page 207 if necessary, keeping in mind
that our version of SPSS does not have the menu called Statistics))
Having loaded the data
Click Analyze menu and choose Correlate ... Bivariate
Select the variables wanted and move them into the Variables box.
Click OK.
3. Do something with the data
Right-click the output
Select copy object
Paste the copied object into FrontPage (Before you paste the object,
right-click and read the"results coach")
Save your work
Send it on to the instructor
Question:
Use the SPSS program and SPSS data bank to find the Pearson product moment
correlation foe each of the following.
a. The correlation between post-instruction attitude (postatt), and the mathematics score on the Iowa Test of Education Development for 9th Graders (ited9) from the data file. math.sav.
Answer:
Question:
b. The correlation between confidence in mathematics (confmath)
and the final grade in mathematics (fingrd) from the data file career.sav.
Answer:
Question:
c. The correlation between empathic concern (empathy) and
altruism (altruism) from the data file donate.sav.
Answer:
filename: StatHW3Ch8Prob07page223TomMeyer.doc
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