Running simple contingency tables in SPSS is easy enough. However, the default format is inconvenient and doesn’t meet APA standards. This tutorial walks you through 3 options for creating the desired tables: CROSSTABS is easy but requires some (manual) editing. CTABLES is faster but a bit harder and requires a custom tables license. TABLES is fast but rather challenging. We’ll […]
Null Hypothesis Assumptions Chi-Square Independence Test in SPSS Output Reporting Null Hypothesis Chi-Square Independence Test A chi-square independence test evaluates if two categorical variables are associated in some population. We’ll therefore try to refute the null hypothesis that two categorical variables are (perfectly) independent in some population.If this is true and we draw a sample from this population, then we […]
SPSS one-sample chi-square test is used to test whether a single categorical variable follows a hypothesized population distribution. SPSS One-Sample Chi-Square Test Example A marketeer believes that 4 smartphone brands are equally attractive. He asks 43 people which brand they prefer, resulting in brands.sav. If the brands are really equally attractive, each brand should be chosen by roughly […]
