SPSS Tutorial 2:

The aim of this tutorial is to gain experience with hypothesis testing using SPSS
Exercise One
The marketing director of PR FILMS LTD collected the following data during a mall
intercept surey! She asked anyone who would stop their age" their gender" and whether
or not they had seen the moie Matrix Reolutions! She stopped #$ people!
Gender Seen Matrix Age
f n %&
f n '(
m n ))
m n )#
m n ()
m n *&
m n '#
m y %&
m y %#
m y %(
m y '
m y %)
m y '(
m y ##
f y *)
f y *#
f y %#
f y &
f y &
f y +
,ote- the data for this exercise .i!e! the a/oe ta/le0 can /e downloaded from
http-11classes!uleth!ca1#$$*$*1mgt*##$y12dmin3#$stuff1 and imported into SPSS
%! 4hat is the relationship /etween a person5s gender and whether or not they hae
/een to see Matrix Reolutions6 Is it the case" for example" that more girls than
/oys go to see it6
#! 4hat is the null and alternatie hypothesis
*! 4hat statistical test should /e performed" and what leel of significance
)! 7sing SPSS conduct the test
(! 4hat are the critical alues of the test statistic
'! Should the null hypothesis /e accepted or re8ected! 4hat can /e concluded
&! 2re people oer #& more or less likely to hae /een to see Matrix Reolutions
than people who are #& or under6
+! 4hat is the null and alternatie hypothesis
9! 4hat statistical test should /e performed" and what leel of significance
%$! 7sing SPSS conduct the test
%%! 4hat are the critical alues of the test statistic
%#! Should the null hypothesis /e accepted or re8ected! 4hat can /e concluded
%*! It is often useful here to conert a continuous aria/le such as age into groups! So"
rather than dealing with a different alue for age for each person you hae" you
need to conert this ratio scale aria/le .age0 into a nominal scale aria/le .age
group0! To do this" on the Transform menu click on :compute;! In the dialog /ox
that opens enter the ,ew Target aria/le name .age group0! <ou also hae to
gie it a type and la/el! In the Functions /ox moe .2,<0 into the numeric
expression field! Then replace the first 6 with the age aria/le! 7se the key pad to
type in the expression =>#&! Replace the second ?uestion mark with the num/er
$! SPSS will automatically code all other alues as %!
%)! 2fter conerting the aria/le what test should /e conducted6
Exercise Two
2 psychologist was interested in self esteem in %# and %* year olds! Specifically" she
wanted to know if social skills training improes self esteem!
To test her hypothesis she gae a Self @steem test at the /eginning of the academic year
to %' children selected at random from grade & at a local 8unior high! The children then
receied two social skills lessons per week for the next ten weeks! 2t the end of that
period she gae the self esteem test again!
Child 1st SE test score 2nd SE test score
2rthur #$ #'
Aack #$ #(
,athan #% #*
Blint #% ##
Cein ## #%
Shaun #* #9
Sam #* #+
Ao #) #+
Derry #' #+
@mma #' #)
Mel #' #'
Cim #& #9
,at #+ #9
ShaE #+ #&
Fictoria *$ *)
@liEa *$ *%
The data for this exercise can /e imported the data from the excel file located at-
tp-11classes!uleth!ca1#$$*$*1mgt*##$y12dmin3#$stuff1
%! 4hat are the null and alternate hypotheses
#! 4hat sort of statistical test should she perform
*! 7sing SPSS run the test
)! Must she accept or re8ect the null hypothesis! 2re the results significant" and if so at what
leel
(! 4hat can she conclude
Exercise Three
2 surey of #$ /ank workers .la/elled #0 and plum/ers .la/elled %0 were asked how
many days they had had off work in the preious year due to respiratory pro/lems .i!e!
cold0 and stomach pro/lems! The results are gien /elow!
Participant Occupation
Respirator
!isorders
Sto"ach
!isorders
% % % &
# % % (
* % ( *
) % $ 9
( % * #
' % ) #
& % $ $
+ % $ #
9 % * '
%$ % # &
%% % % +
%# # & )
%* # ) #
%) # * %
%( # $ %
%' # ) #
%& # % #
%+ # + %
%9 # ( #
#$ # ) '
,ote- the data for this exercise .i!e! the a/oe ta/le0 can /e downloaded from
http-11classes!uleth!ca1#$$*$*1mgt*##$y12dmin3#$stuff1 and imported into SPSS
Exercise #
%! 4ork out means for each dependent aria/le for each group and produce a ta/le
like the one /elow! Report standard deiations for each mean! Produce a clear
caption for your ta/le descri/ing exactly what it shows!
Mean nu"$er o% das lost
Occupation Respirator pro$le"s Gastric pro$le"s
Plu"$ers
&an' wor'ers
#! Do these data proide eidence that plum/ers in the population as a whole take more
days off work due to gastric pro/lems than days off work due to respiratory pro/lems6
*! Same as num/er #" /ut this time for /ank workers!
)! Is there a significant difference in the total num/er of days taken off work .for either
gastric or respiratory pro/lems0 /etween plum/ers and /ank workers!