4  Descriptive Statistics

A descriptive statistic is a summary statistic that quantitatively describes or summarizes features of a collection of information, while descriptive statistics is the process of using and analyzing those statistics.

4.1 Frequency Analysis

After Importing your data set, and providing names to variables, click on:

ANALYZE → DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS → FREQUENCIES

Choose any variables to be analyzed and place them in box on right
Options include (For Categorical Variables):

• Frequency Tables
  
• Pie Charts, Bar Charts
  

4.2 Numerical Data

After Importing your dataset, and providing names to variables, click on:

ANALYZE → DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS → DESCRIPTIVES

Choose any variables to be analyzed and place them in box on right Options include: