Describing
Data
Using
the Describe Function
The
Describe menu in EZAnalyze provides you with a choice of
two ways to describe your data - Descriptive statistics or Percentages (glossary).
To
use the describe menu, select "Describe" from
the EZAnalyze main menu in Excel, then select from one of
the choices presented to you. The choices are:
DESCRIPTIVE
STATISTICS
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Descriptive
statistics are commonly used statistics for reporting
general characteristics of your data. Specifically, you
can obtain the mean, median, mode, range, minimum
value, and maximum value (glossary)
for each numeric variable (glossary)
contained in your data. |
PERCENTAGES
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Percentages
allow you to describe your data in terms of the relative frequency (glossary)
of occurance for each value of a given variable. For
example, if you had a data set that contained a "gender" variable,
calculating the percentages on the gender variable would
tell you what percent of the people in your data set
are males and what percent are females. ALSO, if you
have missing values, in your data, you can use the PERCENTAGES
function to tell you how many missing values there are. |
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