PSY 510 SPSS Assignment 2

PSY 510 SPSS Assignment 2

Before you begin the assignment:

• Review the video tutorial in the module's Required Resources for an overview of exploring data and running descriptive statistics.
• Review the How to Access and Save SPSS Data Sets Within the VDI document in the Required Resources for this module.
• Access and open the Album Sales SPSS data set. Data adapted from Field, A. (2013). Discovering statistics using IBM SPSS statistics (4th ed.). Sage Publications, Inc.

To submit your assignment:

• The best way to paste your output into the Assignment document is to do the following:
o Select Copy when copying from the SPSS output.
o To paste in Word, your document must be open within the VDI. Use a shared drive (such as OneDrive) or access your learning environment within the virtual desktop to download this document.
o Select Paste and then resize the image to fit the screen in Word.

An overview of the data set:
This data set contains data for 200 different rock albums. 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 album promotions company for each album. Values of "1" stand for Next Generation Records, and values of "2" stand for Worldwide Entertainment.
• Adverts: This is the advertising budget in thousands of dollars.
• Sales: This is the number of album sales in thousands.
• Airplay: This is the number of times the album was played on the radio in the past year.
• Attract: This is a 1-to-10 rating by independent reviewers of the physical attractiveness of the band.

Questions:
To complete this assignment, replace the bracketed text with the relevant information.

1a) Create separate histograms of the Adverts, Sales, and Airplay variables.



1b) Which variable(s) approximate a normal distribution?



1c) Identify the variable(s) that have outliers.



2a) Create separate boxplots for Adverts, Sales, and Airplay.



2b) From the boxplots, can you identify any outliers? If so, identify the variable and the outlier.



3) Discuss the strengths and limitations of visualizing data with histograms and boxplots.



4a) List the mean and standard deviation of Adverts, Sales, Airplay, and Attract.



4b) Choose one of the variables from question 4a. Explain in your own words what the mean and standard deviation tells you about scores for the variable you have chosen.