PSY 510 SPSS Assignment 2
, Alexis F. McCagh
Before you begin the assignment:
Review the video tutorial in the Module Six resources for an overview of exploring data and running
descriptive statistics.
Download and open the Album Sales SPSS data set. Data adapted from Field, A. (2013). Discovering
statistics using IBM SPSS statistics (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
An overview of the data set:
This data set contains data for 200 different rock albums (i.e., each row in the data set represents the data for one
album). Specifically, the following variables are included:
AlbumNumber: This is the ID number of the album. There are 200 albums, so this variable ranges
from 1 to 200.
RecordCompany: This is the record company that promoted the album. Values of stand for Next
Adverts: This is the advertising budget of the album. The values are in thousands of dollars.
Sales: These are the sales of the album. The values are in thousands of sales.
Airplay: This is the number of times that the album was played on the radio in the last year.
Attract: This is the overall physical attractiveness of the band as rated by independent raters. The
values for this variable range from 1 to 10.
Questions:
1a) Create separate histograms of the Adverts, Sales, and Airplay variables.
Paste your histograms below:
, Alexis F. McCagh
Before you begin the assignment:
Review the video tutorial in the Module Six resources for an overview of exploring data and running
descriptive statistics.
Download and open the Album Sales SPSS data set. Data adapted from Field, A. (2013). Discovering
statistics using IBM SPSS statistics (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc.
An overview of the data set:
This data set contains data for 200 different rock albums (i.e., each row in the data set represents the data for one
album). Specifically, the following variables are included:
AlbumNumber: This is the ID number of the album. There are 200 albums, so this variable ranges
from 1 to 200.
RecordCompany: This is the record company that promoted the album. Values of stand for Next
Adverts: This is the advertising budget of the album. The values are in thousands of dollars.
Sales: These are the sales of the album. The values are in thousands of sales.
Airplay: This is the number of times that the album was played on the radio in the last year.
Attract: This is the overall physical attractiveness of the band as rated by independent raters. The
values for this variable range from 1 to 10.
Questions:
1a) Create separate histograms of the Adverts, Sales, and Airplay variables.
Paste your histograms below:
