Cramér’s V – What and Why?

Cramér’s V is a number between 0 and 1 that indicates how strongly two categorical variables are associated.If we’d like to know if 2 categorical variables are associated, our first option is the chi-square independence test. A significance level close to zero means that our variables are very unlikely to be completely unassociated in some population. However, this does not […]

SPSS SELECT IF – Simple Tutorial

In SPSS, SELECT IF deletes cases (rows of data) that don’t satisfy some condition(s). Like so, SELECT IF basically means “don’t delete if …” A minimal example isSELECT IF(GENDER = 1). SPSS SELECT IF – Some Examples Say we collected data on our employees and the resulting data file is employees.sav. Our client is only interested in female […]

Overview SPSS Nonparametric Tests

SPSS nonparametric tests are mostly used when assumptions aren’t met for other tests such as ANOVA or t-tests.* Second, nonparametric tests are suitable for ordinal variables too. In rare cases they may have more statistical power than standard tests. Not sure which (nonparametric) test to use? You’ll quickly find the answer in Simple Overview Statistical Comparison Tests. Nonparametric Tests – One Sample SPSS Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test for […]