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Why might a data file have missing data?

A) Some of a participant's responses might be missing.
B) There has been a mistake in saving the SPSS data file.
C) A participant did not take part in the whole study.
D) None of the above.

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Six patients are referred to a specialist physiotherapist for treatment and each has their own defined level of pain identified on a scale of 1-10 measured against amount of exercise defined numerically on a scale of 1-5 hours per day as shown in the following table When this information is entered in SPSS, what will be seen in the column titled 'Type' in the Variable View?

A) 'Level of Pain'
B) 'Numeric'
C) 'None'
D) 'Amount of Exercise'

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If this following data were inputted as a 'within-participants' design, what labels would there be in the 'data view' area? Antibiotic - 15, 12, 18, 20, 17, 16, 20, 20, 19, 20 Antifungal - 17, 20, 20, 18, 20, 16, 15, 18, 17, 19

How is a variable name different from a variable label?

What is the advantage of using SPSS over calculating statistics by hand?

In the data editor, you see that the label given to one column is 'body temperature'. What type of data is contained within this column?

If you are constructing a data file for a repeated-measures design with ten subjects and three conditions, how many columns and rows will the file have?

In which sub-dialog box can the chi-square test be found?

What does the operation 'Recode into Different Variables' do to the data?

When crosstabulating two variables, it is conventional to

What is the correct way to record non-numerical values?

If a doctor wishes to study the effect of a certain type of antibiotic treatment on hospitalized patients, what type of variable will be required to allow for measurements between the group of patients given the treatment and those who are given alternative treatment?

Which of the following is not a file extension recognized by SPSS?

In SPSS what would be the window that you need to access in order to enter your data for analysis?

Which of the following could not be represented by columns in the SPSS data editor

As part of their studies of drugs used to treat infections, two groups of 10 students are given a list of 20 drugs to recall - the first group a list of antibiotics and the second a list of antifungal treatments. Each student is then asked to recall as many of the drugs listed as possible. The following information is collected Antibiotic - 15, 12, 18, 20, 17, 16, 20, 20, 19, 20 Antifungal - 17, 20, 20, 18, 20, 16, 15, 18, 17, 19 What type of design would you consider this study to be?

How would you use the drop-down menus in SPSS to generate a frequency table?

What might be an appropriate way to deal with missing data?

To generate a correlation coefficient between two variables with ordinal data, which set of instructions should you give SPSS?

Ordinal level data are characterized by