SPSS Tutorial 2:: Gender Seen Batman Age
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Mona RaSPSS Tutorial 2: The aim of this tutorial is to gain experience with hypothesis testing using SPSS Exercise One
The marketing director of PR FILMS LTD collected the following data during a mall intercept survey. She asked anyone who would stop, their age, their gender, and whether or not they had seen the movie Batman Begins. She stopped 20 people.
Gender f f m m m m m m m m m m m m f f f f f f n n n n n n n y y y y y y y y y y y y y Seen Batman 17 65 44 42 54 37 62 17 12 15 6 14 65 22 34 32 12 7 7 8 Age
Note: the data for this exercise (i.e. the above table) can be downloaded from [Link] and imported into SPSS
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1. What is the relationship between a person's gender and whether or not they have seen Batman Begins? Is it the case, for example, that more girls than boys have seen it? 2. What is the null and alternative hypothesis 3. What statistical test should be performed, and what level of significance 4. Using SPSS conduct the test 5. What are the critical values of the test statistic 6. Should the null hypothesis be accepted or rejected. What can be concluded 7. Are people over 27 more or less likely to have been to see Batman Begins than people who are 27 or under? 8. What is the null and alternative hypothesis 9. What statistical test should be performed, and what level of significance 10. Using SPSS conduct the test 11. What are the critical values of the test statistic 12. Should the null hypothesis be accepted or rejected. What can be concluded 13. It is often useful here to convert a continuous variable such as age into groups. So, rather than dealing with a different value for age for each person you have, you need to convert this ratio scale variable (age) into a nominal scale variable (age group). To do this, on the Transform menu click on recode. 14. After converting the variable what test should be conducted? Exercise Two A psychologist was interested in self-esteem in 12 and 13 year olds. Specifically, she wanted to know if social skills training improves self esteem. To test her hypothesis she gave a Self Esteem test at the beginning of the academic year to 16 children selected at random from grade 7 at a local junior high. The children then received two social skills lessons per week for the next ten weeks. At the end of that period she gave the self esteem test again.
Child Arthur Jack Nathan Clint Kevin Shaun 20 20 21 21 22 23 1st SE test score 26 25 23 22 21 29 2nd SE test score
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Sam Jo Gerry Emma Mel Kim Nat Shaz Victoria Eliza
23 24 26 26 26 27 28 28 30 30
28 28 28 24 26 29 29 27 34 31
The data for this exercise can be imported the data from the excel file located at: tp://[Link]/200304/mgt3220y/Admin%20stuff/ 1. 2. 3. 4. What are the null and alternate hypotheses What sort of statistical test should she perform Using SPSS run the test Must she accept or reject the null hypothesis. Are the results significant, and if so at what level 5. What can she conclude
Exercise Three A survey of 20 bank workers (labeled 2) and plumbers (labeled 1) were asked how many days they had had off work in the previous year due to respiratory problems (i.e. cold) and stomach problems. The results are given below. Participant 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Occupation 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 5 0 3 4 0 Respiratory Disorders 7 5 3 9 2 2 0 Stomach Disorders
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8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2
0 3 2 1 7 4 3 0 4 1 8 5 4
2 6 7 8 4 2 1 1 2 2 1 2 6
Note: the data for this exercise (i.e. the above table) can be downloaded from [Link] and imported into SPSS 1. Work out means for each dependent variable for each group and produce a table like the one below. Report standard deviations for each mean. Produce a clear caption for your table describing exactly what it shows. Occupation Plumbers Bank workers Mean number of days lost Respiratory problems Gastric problems
2. Do these data provide evidence that plumbers in the population as a whole take more days off work due to gastric problems than days off work due to respiratory problems? 3. Same as number 2, but this time for bank workers. 4. Is there a significant difference in the total number of days taken off work (for either gastric or respiratory problems) between plumbers and bank workers.
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