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How to use SPSS to find variance using just N

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johnathantier

How to use SPSS to find variance using just N

Hi there, I am very new to SPSS and am having some trouble. I know spss uses a n-1 method in variance but what I need to do is different. I need to show the output showing the variance of using the dividing by n method. Could anyone explain how I could do this?

Bruce Weaver

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COMPUTE Var.N = SampleVar*(n-1)/n.

johnathantier wrote

Hi there, I am very new to SPSS and am having some trouble. I know spss uses a n-1 method in variance but what I need to do is different. I need to show the output showing the variance of using the dividing by n method. Could anyone explain how I could do this?

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