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USING GRAPHS TO

DESCRIBE THE DATA

(SPSS)

www.danielboduszek.com d.boduszek@hud.ac.uk

Daniel Boduszek

Introduction

Type of graphs:

Histograms

Bar graphs

Line graphs

Scatterplots

boxplots

Histograms

From the menu click on Graphs, then select Legacy Dialogs, and then Histogram

Click on Continuous Variables and move it into the Variables box

If you want to generate separate histograms for different groups (violent and non-violent offenders) you can put additional variable (type of criminal) in the Panel by: section

Choose Rows (graphs on top of one another) or Column (side by side)

Click OK

Histograms

Bar graphs

Graphs,

Legacy Dialogs,

Bar

Click on Clustered

In the Data in Chart Are section, click on Summaries for groups of cases

Click on Define

Bar graphs

In the Bars Represent box click on Other statistics (e.g. mean)

Click on continuous variable and move it into Variable box

Move your first categorical variable (age) into the Category Axis

And second one (Type of Criminals) into Define Clusters by

OK

Bar graphs

Bar graphs

Graphs

Legacy Dialogs

Line

Line graphs

Click on Multiple

In Data in Chart Are section, click Summaries for groups of cases

Click Define

Line graphs

Line graphs

In the Lines Represent box click on Other statistics (e.g. mean)

Click on continuous variable and move it into Variable box

Move your first categorical variable (age) into the Category Axis

And second one (Type of Criminals) into Define lines by

OK

Line graphs

Scatterplots

Indicate relationship between two continuous variables (also direction and strength of relationship

Graphs

Legacy Dialogs

Scatter/Dot

Scatterplots

Click on Simple Scatter and then Define

Scatterplots

Click on DV (criminal thinking) and move it into Y Axis box

Click on your second continuous variable and move it into X Axis

Click OK

Scatterplots

Boxplots

Present distribution of the scores Graphs

Legacy Dialogs

Boxplots

Boxplots

Click on Simple

In Data in Chart Are section, click Summaries for groups of cases

Click Define

Boxplots

Click on continuous variable and move it into the Variable box

Click on categorical variable (e.g. age) and move it into the Category Axis box

Click on ID and move it into the Label Cases by box

Click OK

Boxplots