Sunday, March 16, 2008

Tip of the Day

Exploring relationships- here you are not interest in differences between groups but rather in the strength of the relationship between variables. There are a variety of techniques to do so such as :
Correlations- here you can use Pearson or Spearman correlation to explore the strength of the relationship between two variables. These statistics will provide you with an indication of both the direction and strength of the relationships
Remember, a positive relationship indicates that as one variables increases, so does the other variables, whilst a negative correlation suggests that as one variable increases, the other decreases.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are you still available for SPSS lesson? this Tuesday? 1-2?

Teddy said...

Please forward your name and contact information to Teddy.leon@alumni.uwi.edu

Teddy