MCQ Bank
Do not rejecting the null hypothesis when it's actually false is
- A) Level of significance
- B) Power of a test
- C) Type I error
- D) Type II error
The “SPSS” is a package of programs for
- A) Manipulation
- B) All of these
- C) Analyzing
- D) Presenting data
When might you want to change the default for the ‘width’ column?
- A) When you expect there to be more digits than the default setting
- B) When there is missing data
- C) Every time you input data
- D) When you want at least two decimal places
In the Data View in the SPSS Data Editor, each row represents what
- A) A variable
- B) A case
- C) A data point
- D) A missing value
If our data use an attitude scale, what type of variable measure should we select?
- A) Ordinal
- B) Scale
- C) Nominal
- D) Both scale and nominal
In SPSS, what is the ‘Variable View’ option used for?
- A) To manipulate the actual data
- B) To set up the dataset parameters
- C) To check SPSS outputs
- D) To enter the actual raw data
What is the advantage of using SPSS over calculating statistics by hand?
- A) It equips you with a useful transferable skill.
- B) All of the other given options.
- C) It reduces the chance of making errors in your calculations.
- D) Many researchers use SPSS as it is a recognised software package.
SPSS stands for which of the following?
- A) Statistical Package for the Social Sciences
- B) Simple Program for Statistics and Sciences
- C) Statistical Package for Simple Solutions
- D) Solving Problem for the Simple Science
In which SPSS tab, the rows represent variables and the columns represent characteristics of variables.
- A) Output viewer
- B) Data editor
- C) Variable view
- D) Data view
How would you copy a scatter plot that you have just produced in SPSS?
- A) In Chart Editor, click Descriptive Statistics, copy, OK
- B) In Data Editor, open Graphs dialog box, click copy, OK
- C) In Output Viewer, select the scatter plot, right click: choose the option copy
- D) In Variable Viewer, open scatter plot, click File, copy, OK
In SPSS, the Data View window looks like Excel Sheet. By default, "rows" in Data View are labeled as:
- A) Row1, Row2, Row3 ...
- B) R1, R2, R3 ...
- C) I, II, III ...
- D) 1, 2, 3 ...
How many type of spreadsheet in SPSS
- A) Five
- B) Four
- C) Two
- D) Three
SPSS uses the term 'Scale' to refer to
- A) Categorical data
- B) All of these choices
- C) Both interval and ratio level data
- D) . Both nominal and ordinal level data
Storing and retrieving data files carried out via the
- A) None of these
- B) Drop-down menu
- C) A & B
- D) Drop-up menu
Which of the following is used for creating and defining various characteristics of variables in SPSS?
- A) Output viewer
- B) Data view
- C) Variable view
- D) Data editor
You can enter a lager description of the variable in
- A) Values
- B) Label
- C) Width
- D) Type
In scatter plots we look for a relationship between the _____variables.
- A) Three
- B) Four
- C) Two
- D) One
In SPSS, the Data View window looks like Excel Sheet. By default, "columns" in Data View are labeled as:
- A) X1, X2, X3 ...
- B) A, B, C ....
- C) var, var, var ...
- D) column1, column2, column3 ...
When would you need to allocate numbers within the values cell?
- A) When using interval data
- B) When you have missing values
- C) When using ratio data
- D) When using a categorical variable that measures groups
In SPSS, where the results of applied tests are shown?
- A) In the same data sheet
- B) In variable view window
- C) In new Data sheet
- D) In the output window