Statistical Inference BBA Fall-2020
Practical # 01
Learning Objectives
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Introduction
Installation
Data entry
Measurement of scales
Coding Variables
Saving SPSS sheets and output
Getting help
Object # 01: Twenty-four army inductees were A B B AB O O O B
given a blood test to determine their blood type. B B O A O A O O
Enter data into SPSS. Specify scales of data. AB A O B A AB B O
Construct frequency distribution and draw simple bar & pie chart. Interpret graphs.
Go to Analyze  Descriptive Statistics  Frequencies  Check “display Frequencies”Charts check Bar
chart and pie chart  OK.
Object # 02: The following data represent the record high temperatures for each
of the 50 states. Construct a grouped frequency distribution for data using 7
classes, histogram, stem and Leaf display, Box plot and comments.
Go to Transform  Visual Bining
 Variables to Bin Continue 
on Binned variable box write name
to create binned variable  Click
on Make cut points  specify
minimum cut point & no. of cut
points  ApplyOK
112 100 127 120 134
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120 113 120 117 105
114
Now go to Analyze  Descriptive
Statistics Frequencies  Select
the binned variable and other desired options and OK .
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105 110 109
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Go to “Graph” Chart Builder Histogram
DO YOURSELF
Object # 03: At a college financial aid office,
students who applied for a scholarship were
classified according to their class rank: Fr =
freshman, So = sophomore, Jr = junior, Se =
senior. Construct a frequency distribution and
make suitable charts for the data. What these
graphs tell you?
Fr
Jr
Fr
So
Se
Fr
Se
So
Fr
Fr
So
Fr
Jr
Fr
Se
So
Fr
Fr
Jr
Fr
Jr
Fr
Jr
So
Fr Fr
So Fr
So Fr
Fr So
So Fr
Fr So
Jr
Se
So So
Object # 04: The blood urea nitrogen count (BUN) of 20 randomly selected
patients is given here in mg/dl. Construct an ungrouped frequency distribution,
histogram and analyze the results.
17, 18, 13, 14, 12, 17, 11, 20, 13, 18, 19, 17, 14, 16, 17, 12, 16, 15, 19, 22