HMB1036 Descriptive Statistics in SPSS & Measures Statistics Assignment Help

Assignment Task

Part 1: Descriptive Measures
Using the data called Descriptive Stats Assignment Data.

1) In your own words, explain what the mean, median, mode, standard deviation, and interquartile range capture at a conceptual level, and when you may use them.

That is, do not explain the value observed in the data or whether it is high, for example. Instead, explain what a median measures, when one might want to use it, and why. Repeat this for the other measures listed above Demonstrate the depth of your conceptual understanding as best as possible and avoid repeating back phrases found in lecture slides. Feel free to use examples if they help illustrate your point. Please do not tell me the formula for getting the mean/median/mode/S Find the overall mean, median, sample standard deviation and range of scores (Min. and Max.) for the variables included in the Table 1 (provide all statistics in the table). If using the Explore function in SPSS, be sure to exclude pairwise. To check, click the Options button inside the Explore dialog box.

• Recidivism
• Criminal Thinking
• Extraversion
• Neuroticism
• Psychoticis

2)The variable age measures the age of participants in years. Knowing what this variable represents, what level of measurement should we consider such a variable to be measured at?

• Categorical/Nominal
• Ordinal
• Interval
• Ratio