Homework problem 6.34

This problem is basically testing your ability to open a data set and analyze the data.
The data are located at:
http://www.uvm.edu/~dhowell/methods/DataFiles/Mireault.dat
and the description of the data is on page 669 of the text
If you go to the webpage with the data and choose "select all"
Then open a spread sheet and "paste" you should have all of the data in one column in the spread sheet.
If you select "text to columns" under the "data" menu you can parse the data into columns
You can save (and close) the spread sheet and then import it into SPSS.
To import the data into SPSS select "open" "data" from the "file" menu.
When you get the "open file" dialog box change the file type to (*.xls)
Go to the directory you saved your .xls file into and open the file.
Make sure you tell SPSS to read in the variable names (check the box).
Click OK and you should have the data in SPSS.
You will have to go back to the text p 669 to figure out what the variables are.
The book tells you there are some missing data indicated by periods - you need to tell SPSS this by going into the variable view, otherwise the analysis will be goofy.
I just entered 999 for the missing values in the data set (hint - make sure SPSS knows it is numeric) and then told SPSS that 999 was the value for missing data (hint - you can sort cases and then just copy and paste the values)
The question asks you to use the variables gender and college - these are easy to identify - so let's do a chi square analysis and enter the two variables - notice that we do not have to weigh cases because we have all of the data needed...
Hope this helps,

--Dr. M