Calculating the Mean and Standard Deviation Using the Descriptives Procedure in SPSS

Calculating the Mean and Standard Deviation Using the Descriptives Procedure in SPSS. Step by step instructions provided.
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Use SPSS to find the mean and standard deviation (using the descriptives procedure)
Mean and standard deviation
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[@brianorakpohit]

Thanks for making this succinct. I really appreciate the video.

[@nurhafizahm.a4181]

Wow that's really simple step. Thanks! ✨

[@mikan7532]

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[@shufflerbrian123]

Very helpful!

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Way better than my teacher thanks

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[@QuantitativeSpecialists]

Jonathan Thomas
My pleasure, Jonathan. Glad it helped!

[@user-kd5vf5sp4z]

short and straightforward

[@suzansalamey9435]

perfect!!!

[@kmoody5012]

How do I calculate a mean for a sub scale? Or set of numbers? I know how to get them individually, but it’s asking me to get the mean for a sub scale which includes multiple numbers.

[@mohameddarwish2467]

perfect explanation

[@QuantitativeSpecialists]

Thanks, Mohamed!

[@sabaharis848]

it really helped, thank u

[@UberGx]

Really useful than-you :) However I think people know what de-selected means..

[@michaelwoldemedhin2346]

Thanks a lot

[@QuantitativeSpecialists]

My pleasure, Michael.

[@user-xv3nh7rp3s]

thanks

[@wongchenscen3262]

How do u change the var to the title that you want?

[@user-rs6fx9ps5x]

Can I ask what does the mean and standard deviation means?? Like, what it represents and what is its purpose?? Thank you. Your videos are great by the way.

[@m0vx]

Mean is the arithmetic average (ex. if you have 1,3,3,8,4 as variables, add them and devide them to their index total number so you get (1+3+3+8+4) / 5 =19/5 = 3.75 where 3.75 is the mean).
Standard deviation is a bit more complex (if anyone considers wrong what I say, please correct me). It's the distance that the variables are apart from each other compared to the mean. For ex. variables 1,1,1 have a std. dev of 0 since there is no difference between them while variables that you actually care about will always deviate since you know....people get different scores (lets say you are a student and you want to see the level of grade compare to your class after taking a test). Test is from 1 to 100 and you got a 36. The mean is calculated and it tells you it's 50. So M=50 and SPSS tells you that Std. Deviation is 14. You take that 14 and add it and substract it from 50 , you get 36, 64 and so on (keep inside the 0-100 scale) , the resulted groupings are the best and worst in the class (36 being the bottom number of the best group in the worst half ). To understand how it works and is calculated, I invite you to this page which should clear any question you might have www.statisticshowto.com/probability-and-statistics/standard-deviation/
I know it's a year later but maybe people end up seeing this and it helps at least them

[@chathuanushki6331]

How to get standard deviation for lab measured data

[@MRradicalmj]

thank you

[@QuantitativeSpecialists]

Glad it helped, Robert!

[@ayushl8262]

How to calculate mean and std deviation in SPSS after conducting multiple response analysis for a particular question?

[@elysonbalaan4981]

i have the same question