1.What SPSS menu tab permits you to begin the process of calculating a new variable?

1.What SPSS menu tab permits you to begin the process of calculating a new variable? 

a. Analyze 

b. Compute 

c. Create 

d. Transform 

2. Chapter 2 Quiz 2 

What does the SPSS Values column help you accomplish? 

a. give descriptive statistics 

b. expand on variable names 

c. place words with variable values 

d. identify variable names 

3. Chapter 2 Quiz 3 

The Fitnessgram computer software uses a Healthy Fitness Zone (HFZ) designation. The HFZ represents which of the following? 

a. summative evaluation 

b. formative evaluation 

c. norm-referenced evaluation 

d. criterion-referenced evaluation 

4. Chapter 2 Quiz 4 

Which of the following describes a data matrix? 

a. rows of variables by columns of data 

b. rows of people by columns of people 

c. rows of participants by columns of variables 

d. rows of numbers by columns of variables 

5. Chapter 2 Quiz 5 

What SPSS procedure tab will permit you to obtain a scatterplot of two variables? 

a. Analyze 

b. Graph 

c. Two-way 

d. Explore 

6. Chapter 2 Quiz 6 

What SPSS procedure will help you create distribution of scores, including percentiles? 

a. Variable view 

b. histogram 

c. Frequencies 

d. table 

7. Chapter 2 Quiz 7 

What SPSS procedure will permit you to see a graphical representation of whether the distribution of scores is normal or skewed? 

a. histogram 

b. graph 

c. plot 

d. shape 

8. Chapter 2 Quiz 8 

What SPSS window permits you to display the name, labels, and missing values for the variables? 

a. Data view 

b. Variable view 

c. Descriptives 

d. Explore 

9. Chapter 2 Quiz 9 

Can an Excel file be read into SPSS? 

a. No, the data must first be transformed into an SPSS file. 

b. Yes, all aspects of the data are easily input from Excel into SPSS. 

c. Yes, but you lose the variable names. 

d. Yes, but you lose any value labels that you have recorded. 

10. Chapter 2 Quiz10 

Which of the following are file extensions that can be read by SPSS? 

a. .sav 

b. .spss 

c. .xls 

d. only two of these