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Re: Simulation with SPSS

Posted by Ryan on Feb 22, 2012; 4:49am
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/Simulation-with-SPSS-tp2856363p5504125.html

Are you guys telling me that I provided a solution to a problem that was posted over a year ago?! I'll be certain to check the date of each message in the future. Not sure how such an old message ended up in my mailbox today. Oh well. 

Ryan

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Bruce Weaver <[hidden email]> wrote:
Ah yes, so it is!  Didn't notice the date.


David Marso wrote
>
> ;-)
> Hi Bruce, The post you responded to is over a year and a half old (Sept
> 2010).
> Looks like this thread is a revived zombie.
> --
>
> Bruce Weaver wrote
>>
>> Please provide more information.
>>
>> 1. Is it a two-group (or more) pre-post design?
>>
>> 2. What kind of analysis are you intending to do?  ANCOVA?
>>
>> 3. It's not clear what you mean when you say "the means of the tests are
>> not significant".  If you are doing ANCOVA, do you mean the F-test for
>> Group should not be statistically significant?
>>
>> 4. What are the sample sizes?  (The answer to this has a bearing on Q3,
>> assuming you did mean you want the F-test for group to be
>> non-significant.)
>>
>> 5. What is the correlation between pre- and post-test scores?
>>
>>
>> The following links might be useful:
>>
>> http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/StatPages/More_Stuff/CorrData.SPS
>>
>> https://sites.google.com/a/lakeheadu.ca/bweaver/Home/statistics/files/Two%20correlated%20samples%20macro.sps?attredirects=0&d=1
>>
>> HTH.
>>
>>
>>
>> Humphrey Paulie wrote
>>>
>>> Dear colleagues,
>>> I want to simulate data with SPSS. I want to have a dataset on a test
>>> (pre-test and post-test) in such a way that the means of the tests are
>>> not significant. I don't know the exactly where and which icons are for
>>> simulation in SPSS. Do I need syntax for this? I'd be thankful if you
>>> give me the syntax if syntax is required.
>>> Regards
>>> Humphrey
>>>
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