SPSS Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test for Normality

What is a Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test? SPSS Kolmogorov-Smirnov test from NPAR TESTS SPSS Kolmogorov-Smirnov test from EXAMINE VARIABLES Reporting a Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test Wrong Results in SPSS? What is a Kolmogorov-Smirnov normality test? The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test examines if scores are likely to follow some distribution in some population.For avoiding confusion, there’s 2 Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests: there’s the one […]

SPSS DO IF – Simple Tutorial

SPSS transformations between DO IF … and END IF are applied only to cases (rows of data) that satisfy one or more conditions. In many cases, IF is a faster way to accomplish the same results. SPSS Do If Example Say we’d like to convert people’s monthly income into income classes. We may want to use different cut […]

SPSS Sampling Basics

Summary How to draw one or many samples from your data in SPSS? This tutorial demonstrates some simple ways for doing so. We’ll point out some tips, tricks and pitfalls along the way. Let’s get started and create some test data by running the syntax below. SPSS Syntax for Creating Test Data *Create test data with […]

SPSS RV Function

Basic Use COMPUTE v1 = RV.NORMAL(0,1). Summary In SPSS, RV is short for random variable. It draws random values from a given probability distribution.* The latter is specified as a period separated suffix as in RV.BERNOULLI(.5).RV is mostly but not necessarily used with COMPUTE. Random Sample (N = 10,000) from a Standard Normal Distribution SPSS Rv Examples A nice way to get […]