WU Confidence Interval for the Variable Age Discussion – Description
Calculate a confidence interval in SPSS for one of the variables from your Week 2 and Week 3 Assignments.
To prepare for this Assignment:
Review the Learning Resources related to probability, sampling distributions, and confidence intervals.
For additional support, review the Skill Builder: Confidence Intervals and the Skill Builder: Sampling Distributions.
Using the SPSS software, open the Afrobarometer dataset or the High School Longitudinal Study dataset (whichever you chose) from Week 2.
Choose an appropriate variable from Weeks 2 and 3 and calculate a confidence interval in SPSS.
Once you perform your confidence interval, review Chapters 5 and 11 of the Wagner text to understand how to copy and paste your output into your Word document.
For this Assignment:
Write an analysis of your results and include a copy and paste of the appropriate visual display of the data into your document. If you are using the Afrobarometer Dataset, report the mean of Q1 (Age). If you are using the HS Long Survey Dataset, report the mean of X1SES. Based on the results of your data in this confidence interval Assignment, provide a brief explanation of what the implications for social change might be.
Frankfort-Nachmias, C., Leon-Guerrero, A., & Davis, G. (2020). Social statistics for a diverse society (9th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 5, “The Normal Distribution” (pp. 151-177)
Chapter 6, “Sampling and Sampling Distributions” (pp. 179-209)
Chapter 7, “Estimation” (pp. 211-240)
Wagner, III, W. E. (2020). Using IBM® SPSS® statistics for research methods and social science statistics (7th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Chapter 3, “Selecting and Sampling Cases”
Chapter 5, “Charts and Graphs”
Chapter 11, “Editing Output”
Magnusson, K. (n.d.). Welcome to Kristoffer Magnusson’s Blog About R, Statistics, Psychology, Open Science, Data VisualizationLinks to an external site. [blog]. Retrieved from http://rpsychologist.com/index.html
As you review this web blog, select the Interpreting Confidence Intervals – new d3.js visualization link, once you select the link, follow the instructions to view the interactive for confidence intervals. This interactive will help you to visualize and understand confidence intervals.
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