Re: compound variables - kruskall wallis

Posted by Oscar M on Nov 20, 2013; 12:37pm
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/compound-variables-kruskall-wallis-tp5723154p5723186.html

Hi Diana

 

Thanks for your help. Sorry not much time to reply at the mo.

yes the compound variable is the combination of about six scale questions, combined in SPSS through 'data/compute variable.

None of the variables are normally distributed so that's why I was investigating thing such as KW.

Thanks for all contributions on this - I will read in detail later. Great to have this level of expertise to tap into.

 

Mike

On 20 November 2013 09:02, Kornbrot, Diana <[hidden email]> wrote:

HI

By compound I assume you mean that variable attitudes is sum of score on 6 items form your batteries?
q1 is attitudes normally distributed? If so can use ANOVA with frequency category as categorical predictor. Chose polynomial in contrasts to check if there is linear rise with frequency category
If not try PLUM read  spss help carefully for interpretation of output. Or google for good internet source on ordinal regression
Why not K-W? Because it assumes that, although not normal , dependent variable has same distributions shape for all 4 categories. This is rare as snowball in hell for summed scales. KW was aimed at variables like time and income that are continuous but long tailed and is widely misused for bounded scales such as your compound scale
Best
Diana


On 19/11/2013 19:11, "Mike O'Driscoll" <odriscollfm@...> wrote:

Thanks Diana
 
Can you or anyone else tell me why Kruskal Wallis is not OK in this case?
 
Thanks
 

From: Kornbrot, Diana [[hidden email]]
Sent: 19 November 2013 17:06
To: Oscar M
Cc: SPSSX(r) Discussion
Subject: Re: compound variables - kruskall wallis

You need ordinal regression also known as plum in spss
Kruskal wallis will not solve your problem


On 19/11/2013 15:43, "Oscar M" <odriscollfm@...> wrote:
Wanting to test a compound variable (i.e. combined 6 variables from a battery
of questions which ask about attitudes to gaming)  against a variable about
frequency of playing games (4 categories). Using kruskall wallis in SPSS but
not sure it is legitimate to use compound variables in this test? Only Non
parametric tests are possible with this data - does not meet any parametric
conditions. All help appreciated.

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