SPSS TableLooks – Quick Introduction

SPSS TableLooks are files that contain styling -colors, fonts, borders and more- for SPSS output tables. What can I (not) do with TableLooks? Applying TableLooks Creating TableLooks Developing TableLooks Issues with TableLooks Output Table Styled by TableLook Example Practice Data File This tutorial uses bank_clean.sav throughout. Part of its data view is shown below. Feel free to download these […]

SPSS Factor Analysis – Beginners Tutorial

What is Factor Analysis? Quick Data Check Running Factor Analysis in SPSS SPSS Factor Analysis Output Adding Factor Scores to Our Data What is Factor Analysis? Factor analysis is a statistical technique for identifying which underlying factors are measured by a (much larger) number of observed variables.Such “underlying factors” are often variables that are difficult […]

How to Mean Center Predictors in SPSS?

For testing moderation effects in multiple regression, we start off with mean centering our predictors:mean centering a variable is subtracting its mean from each individual score.After doing so, a variable will have a mean of exactly zero but is not affected otherwise: its standard deviation, skewness, distributional shape and everything else all stays the same. After mean […]

Measurement Levels

Measurement levels refer to different types of variables that imply how to analyze them. Standard textbooks distinguish 4 such measurement levels or variable types. From low to high, these are nominal variables; ordinal variables; interval variables; ratio variables. The “higher” the measurement level, the more information a variable holds. The simple flowchart below shows how […]