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MushtaqAnsari
AgaKhanUniversity,Pakistan

HowcanIknowthatmydataisnormallydistributedin
SPSS?Isitnecessaryforttest?
Iusethisdataset.Thisistakenformclassroomobservationscoreonthreepoint
scaleform1to3.Myindependentvariableisstatus.Iwanttoknowthat
1.Isthistotalandeachconstructisnormallydistributed?
2.CanIapplythettesttofindthesignificancebetweenStatus(1&2)?

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Forarealdatasetyouwillneverreallyknow.Asyouhavediscrete
numbersyourdatacanatmostbeapproximatlynormaldistributed.
Insteadofattestyoucouldgoforacorrespondingranktestnot
requireingthenormalassumptionsuchasWilcoxonMannWhitneytest.

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BrunoFernandesAbrantesUniversityofLisbon

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HiMushtaq,
Tocheckifyourdatahasanormaldistribution,checkthesymmetry

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(shouldfitanintervalbetween1.96and+1.96andthekurtosisshould
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Bruno
Mar16,2015

YasinBaykalrFiratUniversity
HelloMushtaq!
InSPSSyoushouldtoverifynormality.forthisyoucanfollowmany
wayssuchasskewnessandcurtosis,histogramchart,boxplot,levene
tests(kolmogrovandshapiro)etc.ifyouhave30ormoresamplesyou
checkkolmogrovsmirnovtestresults,ontheotherhandifyoursamples
under30orlowcheckforshapirowilk.
First,enteryourdatainSPSS,afterfollowstepwhichbelow
Analyze>DescriptiveStatistics>Explore
Gotaquestionyouneedansweredquickly?
Moveto"group"factorlistanddatamovestodependentlist.andthen

Technicalquestionsliketheoneyou'vejustfoundusuallyget
clickthe"Plots",choosethe"histogramandnormalityplotswithtests"

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Evaluateyournormalityresultsandchooseparametricornonparametric
testsfromSPSS.
Iwishthishelpsyou.
Mar17,2015

PelumiOguntundeCovenantUniversityOtaOgunState,Nigeria
YoucansimplyobtainthevalueoftheskewnessinSPSS,thiswould
guidetoknowifitispositivelyskewed,approximatelynormal,or
positivelyskewed.Betterstill,youcanperformnormalitytestslikethe
KolmogorovSmirnovtest,AndersonDarlingTest,orShapiroWilktest.
Youcanalsoplotthehistogramforthedataandincludethenormality
curve.Ihopethiswillguideyoualittle.

Mar17,2015

MushtaqAnsariAgaKhanUniversity,Pakistan
Pelumi,Yasin,Bruno,Matthias
Thiswasmyfirstexperiencetopostaquestion.Thesearemorethan
helpful.Thanksaloteveryone.
Mar18,2015

PeterSamuelsBirminghamCityUniversity
JusttoaddtoYasin'spoint,thebestnormalitytestforsmallsample
sizeslikeyoursisShapiroWilkratherthanKolmogorovSmirnov.Evenif
yourdataisnotnormallydistributedyoucanstillrunattestprovided
yoursamplesizesareequalandlargerthan25see:
Sawilowsky,S.S.andBlair,R.C.(1992)Amorerealisticlookatthe
robustnessandTypeIIerrorpropertiesofthettesttodeparturesfrom
populationnormality,PsychologicalBulletin,111(2),pp.352360.
Mar20,2015

MushtaqAnsariAgaKhanUniversity,Pakistan
WowSam........thanksididnotknowthat....great
Mar21,2015

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