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SPSS
Vocabularly
Frequencies
Review Terms
100
In SPSS to Count Occurences of Values within cases you would have to go to this command on your toolbar. Remember Count Occurences of Values within Cases contrain target variable and target label but how do you get there?
What is the Transform Command
100
This is a topic that has concerned social scientists for a long time, and the persistence of the problem keeps it a topic of interest and research
What is Prejudice
100
A pie chart is simply a graphic display of data that depicts the differences in frequencies or percentages, so when you combine variables to create a pie chart what command do you select under "Data chart are: either summary for groups of cases, summaries of seperate variables, or values of individual cases
What summaries for groups of cases
100
A variable whos attributes are not only distringuished from one naother but also can be arranged in a progression from high to low less to more and so on. Relative distances not absolute distances between attributes are known for ordinal variables.
What is Ordinal
200
Under Missing Values 0 represents this label?
What is IAP
200
Granting or inclined to grant permission in a sexual form
What is sexual permisiveness
200
When creating a frequency distribution the measure in the variable view for making an index should be? nominal or ordinal?
What is ordinal?
200
A variable whos attributes are simply distinguished from one another. It is the most basic level of measurement. Gender and political party affiliation are examples of
What is nominal
300
This is the command that is introduced in this chapter along with setting values labels and the __________ range plus one option
What is the Missing Label
300
is the period of time required for a quantity to double in size or value. It is applied to population growth, inflation, resource extraction
What is Doubling Time
300
A numerical display of the number of imes and relative percerntage of times each value of a variable occures in a given sample
What is a frequency distribution
300
A measure of spread or how different cases are from each other. For inteval and ratio variables, the standard deviation masures the spread of cases around the mean
What is dispersion
400
In chapter 8 we created a ______ which is a form of composite measure composed of more than one indicator of the variable under study
What is INDEX
400
To combine the multiple measures of abortion into a single variable is known as what type of measure?
What is Composite
400
Along with inferential statistics, one of the two main types of statistics used by social scientists. Statistics are widely used to describe and summarize deterministic relationships
What is descriptive statistics
500
In SPSS these values have codes. Which code represents the 1 Code?
What is "Yes"
500
SPSS statistics can be instructed to combine adjacent categories using the ________ command.
What is Recoding
500
In a frequency distrubution the most important column for understanding the data which can be defined as the percentage based on elimination of those gave no answers is this column in a frequency distrubution
What is valid percentage
500
Is the middle category (level of measurement) in a distribution and needed to measure of central tendency in a ordinal level of measurement
What is the median