DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS
Your first IBM SPSS assignment includes two sections in which you will do the following:
●Create two histograms.
●Calculate measures of central tendency and dispersion.This will give you some experience with the data set.Key Details and Instructions
●Submit your assignment as a Word document.
●Refer to the IBM SPSS Step-by-Step Guide: Histograms and Descriptive Statistics [DOC] and to the Copy/Export Output Instructions [HTML] for
additional help in completing this assignment.
●As you work on this assignment, you may find the Data Set Instructions[DOC] helpful.
●Provide a title for your document and your name.The grades.sav file is a sample SPSS data set. The data represent a teacher’s recording of student demographics and performance on quizzes and a final exam. This week, you will create and describe two histograms and a descriptive stable using these data.Part 1Create two histograms for visual interpretation using the following variables:SPSS Variable Definition Gender female =1; male =2
Create two histograms and paste them into your Word document:
●A histogram for male students.
●A histogram for female students.Briefly describe what a visual inspection of this output tells you about the nature of the curves.Part 2Create a descriptive table to assess measures of central tendency and dis person using the following variables:
●Create a descriptive s table and paste it into your Word document.
●Report the mean, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis for GPA andquiz3.
●Briefly describe what skewness and kurtosis tell you about these data withregard to normality
