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SPSS micro lecture on explore in SPSS

SPSS micro lecture on explore in SPSS

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1.6 Variance and standard deviation | Basic Statistics | Exploring Data | UvA

This video discusses two other measures of variability that are often used in statistical studies: the variance and the standard deviation. You learn how to calculate the variance and standard…

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7.5 Significance test and confidence interval | Basic Statistics | Significance Tests | UvA

This video shows you that two methods of inferential statistics, confidence intervals and significance tests, are closely related.

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5.1 Sample and population | Basic Statistics | Sampling Distributions | UvA

In this video Matthijs explains the difference between sample and population. You also learn what the difference between sample statistics and inferential statistics is. This course consists…

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4.4 The variance of a random variable | Basic Statistics | Probability Distributions | UvA

This video explains how the variance of a random variable is calculated. You also learn what happens with the variance when adjusting a random variable or when combining different random variables.

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4.3 The mean of a random variable | Basic Statistics | Probability Distributions | UvA

This video explains how to calculate the mean of a probability distribution. You also learn what happens with the mean when adjusting a random variable or when combining different random variables.

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1.8 Example (summarizing this module) | Basic Statistics | Exploring Data | UvA

In this video Matthijs discusses an example in which he uses all the core elements of this module. In the example, your data matrix contains the average grades in chemistry of 8 high schools.…

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1.7 Z-scores | Basic Statistics | Exploring Data | UvA

In this video you learn how to compute a Z-score and why it is useful. Sometimes, researchers want to know if a certain observation is common or exceptional. To find out they calculate the number of…

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1.5 Range, interquartile range and box plot | Basic Statistics | Exploring Data | UvA

To describe a distribution you need more information than the measures of central tendency. You also need information about the variability (or dispersion) of the data. Matthijs discusses the…

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1.4 Mode, median and mean | Basic Statistics | Exploring Data | UvA

Next to summarizing a distribution by means of graphs, it can also be useful to summarize the center of your distribution. In this video Matthijs discusses three main ways to do this: the mode, mean…

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1.3 Graphs and shapes of distributions | Basic Statistics | Exploring Data | UvA

In this video Matthijs shows you how to summarize and present data from frequency tables into different types of graphs. He discusses the (dis)advantages of bar graphs vs. pie charts, dot plots vs.…

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1.2 Data matrix and frequency table | Basic Statistics | Exploring Data | UvA

This video explains what a data matrix and frequency table are and how you can use them with different types of variables. The video also shortly touches upon what to do with missing values and how…

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1.1 Cases, variables and levels of measurement | Basic Statistics | Exploring Data | UvA

This video explains the difference between cases and variables. Variables can be measured on different levels. There are categorical variables (nominal, ordinal) and quantitative variables (interval,…

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1.0 Introduction to the course | Basic Statistics | UvA

Emiel van Loon and Matthijs Rooduijn give a quick introduction to the outline of the UvA course Basic Statistics. This course consists of seven modules and each module has several videos. To find the…

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6.7 The runs test | Inferential Statistics | Non-parametric tests | UvA

This video explains how the runs test works, which you can use to answer the question whether a sequence of categorical or numerical data is random based on the sequence of the individual labels.

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6.6 Spearman's rank correlation coefficient | Inferential Statistics | Non-parametric tests | UvA

This video explains when to apply and how to calculate the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. It is often treated as the non-parametric counterpart of the Pearson's correlation…

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