03 Descriptive Statistics and z Scores in SPSS – SPSS for Beginners

In this third video about SPSS for Beginners, Dr. Daniel shows you three ways to approach descriptive statistics in SPSS. If you want quick and basic descriptive statistics, use the Descriptives command to get the most commonly used statistics. The Frequencies command gives you a wide range of possibilities with the most flexibility to choose exactly what output that you want. When you want maximum output with lots of graphs – or if you want to split the descriptive statistics by a categorical variable (like gender), then use the Explore command.

For more training about how to use SPSS, please check out these videos.

This video uses a dataset we create in the first video of the series and SPSS version 24

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