HSCI 390L - Bio Statistics Lab » Spring 2020 » Lab Exam 1

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Question #1
Which view/screen do you enter your actual observations/data points for each variable in SPSS (e.g., for the variable of age, your 5 observations/data points are 34, 22, 55, 26, 19)?
A.   Output View
B.   Frequency View
C.   Data View
D.   Variable View
Question #2
Which view/screen do you enter your variables in SPSS (e.g., variables of gender, cholesterol level and blood pressure)?
A.   Frequency View 
B.   Variable View
C.   Output View
D.   Data View
Question #3
In order to assign numeric codes to data from qualitative variables (e.g., gender), which of the following columns in Variable View would you use? 
A.   Values
B.   Decimals 
C.   Measure
D.   Label
E.   Name
Question #4
If you wanted to give variables (e.g., age, weight) more descriptive details (e.g., age in years, weight in pounds) in SPSS, you would use which of the following columns in Variable View? 
A.   Name
B.   Measure 
C.   Type
D.   Label 
E.   Values
Question #5
If you wanted to let SPSS know what level of measurement (e.g., nominal, ordinal) your entered variable is, which column in Variable View would you use?  
A.   Label
B.   Name
C.   Values
D.   Decimal
E.   Measure
Question #6
In an SPSS dataset, you have the variable of most frequent type of typical workout (e.g., going to the gym, playing a sport, running/jogging). Which of the following types of graphs would be most appropriate to construct in SPSS for this variable? 
A.   Histogram
B.   Bar chart/graph

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