Ellen scored 19 for the Uptown League whose mean score was 16.5 with a standard deviation of 1.2.Barbara scored 32 for the Downtown League whose mean score was 30 with a standard deviation of 2.  Which player had the most outstanding score with respect to the league she represented?     SPSS Exercises   Create line graphs (graphs-legacy dialogs-line) for respondents’ age (AGE), highest year of school completed (EDUC), and size of place (SIZE).How close are these distributions to normal curves?   Compute standardized scores (or z-scores) for the variable PRESTG80.Then find and report the mean and standard deviation (analyze-descriptive statistics-descriptives) for this new distribution of z-scores.  (First save the standardized values of PRESTG80 using descriptives and then run a new descriptives on this variable.)

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  1. Ellen scored 19 for the Uptown League whose mean score was 16.5 with a standard deviation of 1.2.Barbara scored 32 for the Downtown League whose mean score was 30 with a standard deviation of 2.  Which player had the most outstanding score with respect to the league she represented?

 

 

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  1. Create line graphs (graphs-legacy dialogs-line) for respondents’ age (AGE), highest year of school completed (EDUC), and size of place (SIZE).How close are these distributions to normal curves?

 

  1. Compute standardized scores (or z-scores) for the variable PRESTG80.Then find and report the mean and standard deviation (analyze-descriptive statistics-descriptives) for this new distribution of z-scores.  (First save the standardized values of PRESTG80 using descriptives and then run a new descriptives on this variable.)
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