SPSS-PC Commands for Statistical Tests

All of the statistical tests are under the menu of Statistics.

I. Descriptive Statistics

To get descriptive statistics such as central tendency, distribution skewness and dispersion, click on Statistics--> Summarize--> Frequencies. Click the variables you need and use the arrow button to transport the variables to the right box. Then in the same dialog box, click the Statistics box at the left hand bottom corner of the three boxes . Check appropriate statistics that you want to include in your output. Click continue, and then click OK.

II. Chi-square statistics

To get chi-square statistics, click on Statistics -->Summarize-->Crosstabs. Then in the dialog box, specify the appropriate row and column variables for the contingency table highlighting the variables and click the arrow button to transport to the appropriate row and column variable area. Then click the statistics box and the left hand bottom corner of the three boxes. Check chi-square. Click continue and then click OK.

III. t-test

To get the t-statistics, click on Statistics--> Compare Means-->Independent sample T-test. Then in the dialog box, specify the test variables (the dependent variables) and the group variable (the independent variable). Click define group after you specified the group variable. In the define group dialog box, choose use specified values, then type in the value of the two groups that you want to compare. For example, in a comparison of male and female, type 1 (which means male) in group 1, and 2 (which means female) in group 2. Click continue and then click OK.

IV. Oneway ANOVA

To get the ONEWAY ANOVA statistics, click on Statistics -->Compare Means--> Oneway ANOVA. Then in the dialog box, specify the variables in the dependent list (the dependent variables) and the factor (the independent variable). Click the options box in the right hand bottom corner in the dialog box and check descriptives for ANOVA such as the mean and sample size of each group. Click continue and then click OK.