Assignment #5a : Instructions: Use SPSS to solve Data Analysis Problem 10 in chapter 7. Use Assignment

Assignment #5a :

Instructions: Use SPSS to solve Data Analysis Problem 10 in chapter 7. Use Assignment 5a -- Tutorial.pdf from ADDITIONAL RESOURCES to guide you through this assignment.

Prob 10, Ch 7:
Select a variable from the electric.sav file and use the Explore procedure to study its distribution for men who were alive 10 years after the study started and in men who were not alive (variable vital10 ). Write a short summary of results, including appropriate graphs.

Assignment #5b :

Instructions: Answer Statistical Concepts Exercise 2 in chapter 8.

Exercise 2, Ch 8:
Indentify the dependent and independent variables, if possible, for each of the following pairs of variables:

Satisfaction with job and race
Belief in life after death and gender
Astrological sign and excitement with life
Mother's highest degree and daughter's highest degree
Happiness with one's marriage and belief in life after death

Satisfaction with job and race.
Belief in life after death and gender
Astrological sign and excitement with life
Mother’ highest degree and daughter’s highest degree

f. Happiness with one’s marriage and belief in life after death.

Assignment #5c :

Instructions: Use SPSS to solve Data Analysis Problem 4 in chapter 8. Use Assignment 5c -- Tutorial.pdf from ADDITIONAL RESOURCES to guide you through this.

Prob 4, Ch 8:
Make a crosstabulation to examine the relationship between highest degree earned (variable degree ) and a person's perception of life (variable life ).

How many people without a high school diploma find life exciting?
What percentage of people without a high school diploma find life exciting
Of the people who find life exciting, what percentage do not have a high school diploma?
If degree is the column variable and life is the row variable, what kind of percentages should you compute for the table?
Summarize the relationship, if any, between perception of life and highest degree earned.