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Descriptive statistical procedures consist of four different types of analysis:

Descriptive Statistics give us frequencies, descriptives, explore procedures and crosstabs procedures.

MOVIE: Frequencies and Descriptives
MOVIE: Explore Procedures
MOVIE: Crosstab Procedures

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In this on-line workshop, you will find many movie clips. Each movie clip will demonstrate some specific usage of SPSS.

Frequencies:

This procedure gives frequency tables with three submenus, which are:

	Statistics: This submenu allows users to choose various of descriptive measures such as average, median, standard deviation, percentiles, and so on
	Charts: This submenu provides Bar charts and Pie charts for categorical data.
	Format: This submenu allows users to define the format of the output.

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Descriptives:

This is usually for continuous data.

This procedure gives options of computing descriptive measurements such as mean, variance, std. deviation, and so on.

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Explore:

This procedure gives several graphical presentation and descriptive measurements. It has three submenus:

	Statistics: This submenu gives descriptive measurements that are also available in the Descriptive Procedure.
	Plots: This submenu gives several graphical plots for any selected variable. These plots include Stem-Leaf plot, histogram and Normality plot. They are useful for checking if a variable follows Normality assumption for further analysis.
	Options: This submenu allows users to decide how the missing data will be treated.

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Crosstabs:

This procedure is for exploring the relationship between two or more categorical variables in crosstabulation form. This procedure has three submenus:

	Statistics: This submenu provides many statistical tests that are used for categorical data analysis, including Chi-squared test, Spearman correlation and many others.
	Cells: This submenu allows users to choose the information for output.
	Format: This submenu allows users to choose the order of the category in the output.