Deck 2: Data Sets

Question 1

Which column in Variable View lets you attach labels to the codes for a variable's attributes?

A) Name
B) Label
C) Values
D) Role

Answer 1

Values

Question 2

Convert this number from scientific notation into normal notation: −7.89E+03

A) −7890
B) −.00789
C) .00789
D) 7890

Answer 2

−7890

Question 3

In SPSS, which of the following must a variable have?

A) user missing values
B) value labels
C) variable label
D) variable name

Answer 3

variable name

Question 4

The default variable type for SPSS is

A) dot
B) numeric
C) scientific notation
D) string

Question 5

The name of the SPSS data file that will be used for the examples in the chapters and the practice problems at the end of the chapters is

A) answeringQuestions.sav
B) fourGroups.sav
C) GSS.sav
D) sampleData.sav

Question 6

Convert this number from scientific notation into normal notation: 1.23E−03

A) −1230
B) −.00123
C) .00123
D) 1230

Question 7

The screen on which you define your variables (for example, naming them, assigning value labels, and indicating their level of measurement) is

A) Data View
B) Input View
C) Output View
D) Variable View

Question 8

You have a numeric variable that records the number of college credits a person has earned. You want to create a user-defined missing value for person's whose college records were unavailable. Which of the following would be the best user-defined missing value to use?

A) −1
B) 0
C) 99
D) 250

Question 9

If the decimal setting for a numeric variable is set at 2 and you enter a case's value for that variable as 1.234, what happens?

A) 1.23 appears in Data View and 1.23 is stored in the computer's memory
B) 1.23 appears in Data View but 1.234 is stored in the computer's memory
C) 1.234 appears in Data View but 1.23 is stored in the computer's memory
D) 1.234 appears in Data View and 1.234 is stored in the computer's memory

Question 10

Convert this number from normal notation into scientific notation: −.000456

A) −4.56E−04
B) −4.56E+04
C) 4.56E−04
D) 4.56E+04

Question 11

SPSS places a symbol next to each variable name in variable lists to indicate that variable's level of measurement. What symbol is used to indicate an ordinal level of measurement?

A) three balls
B) three bars
C) a leaf
D) a ruler

Question 12

Which of the following will work as an SPSS variable name?

A) %return
B) return%
C) 1000DollarInvestment
D) investment$1000

Question 13

Which of the following will work as an SPSS variable name?

A) partridgeInAPearTree
B) 2TurtleDoves
C) three French Hens
D) 4callingbirds

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a routine part of an SPSS data analysis session?

A) do some analysis
B) open a data set
C) print some results
D) register the software

Question 15

Which column in Variable View lets you attach labels to variable names?

A) Name
B) Label
C) Values
D) Role

Question 16

A researcher is gathering data on the 50 states. She wants to actually enter the name of the state into the data matrix as one of the variables in her data set. What type of SPSS variable should that be?

A) elementary
B) numeric
C) statutory
D) string

Question 17

Which of the following SPSS procedures would show you the values each case has on one or more variables?

A) Case Summaries
B) Display Data File Information
C) Frequencies

Question 18

In SPSS, variables whose values may include letters are called _____ variables.

A) cardinal
B) numeric
C) real
D) string

Question 19

Which of the following SPSS procedures would show you how each variable was defined in Variable View?

A) Case Summaries
B) Display Data File Information
C) Frequencies
Multiple-Choice Questions from Student Quizzes

Question 20

In SPSS, variables whose values may include only numbers and possibly a decimal point, a negative sign, or a positive sign are called _____ variables.

A) arithmetic
B) continuous
C) numeric
D) string

Question 21

You are stumped about how to do a particular analysis. No one is around and your cell phone is dead. What can you do to get help from SPSS?

Question 22

Since they play no part in statistical analysis, of what use are variable labels and value labels?

Question 23

In SPSS, the interval/ratio level of measurement is referred to as

A) cardinal
B) numeric
C) real
D) scale

Question 24

What is the difference between numeric and string variable types?

Question 25

You are given a new SPSS data file created by someone else. What should you do to gain familiarity with its contents?

Question 26

What is the difference between variable labels and value labels?

Question 27

If a variable will sometimes be used as an independent variable and sometimes as a dependent variable, its role should be specified in Variable View as

A) flex
B) input
C) none
D) target
(Note: * indicates Concept Check question from the text)

Question 28

Why run Display Data File Information?

Question 29

What characters can SPSS variable names begin with?

Question 30

Most SPSS data analysis sessions consist of five parts. What are those five parts?

Question 31

What are some of the SPSS rules regarding variable names?

Question 32

Convert each of the following numbers from scientific notation into normal numerical form.

A) 1.234E+02 __________
B) −1.234E−02 __________

Question 33

When are value labels useful and when are they unnecessary?

Question 34

When should you use string variables?

Question 35

What are two ways to get location-specific help in SPSS?

Question 36

After having generated quite a bit of SPSS output you want to go back and look at the output from the first procedure you ran. You could use the scroll bar on the right edge of the output window but what is another way to quickly get to that output?

Question 37

You are creating a numeric variable that indicates whether the respondent is left-handed, right-handed, ambidextrous, or other. Indicate how you would specify/set each of the following in Variable View:

A) Name:
B) Decimals:
C) Label:
D) Values:
E) Measure:

Question 38

SPSS is showing variable labels in its variable lists. How do you get it to show variable names instead?

Question 39

What is the difference between system-missing and user-defined missing values?