EZAnalyze Help - Results Report - Descriptive Statistics

Reading your Results Report - Descriptive Statistics

Interpreting the results of the Describe - Descriptive Statistics function

The results report for your descriptive statistics contains information critical to the interpretation of your results. You have several options for describing your data (mean, standard deviation, range, etc); each of these will be desribed below.

Definitions of each descriptive statistic are provided below

Above is an example of a results report for two variables, "english" and "math."

The results report for this analysis is structured so that the columns contain all of the variables you selected for analysis, while the rows contain the descriptive statistics. In the example, the first two rows of the results report "N valid" and "N missing" are always included in the results report; you are only required to have one of the remaining descriptive statistics included in your results report.

N Valid	The number of cases in the variable with valid values (ie., not missing values)
N Missing	The number of cases in the variable that were missing (ie., not valid)
Mean	The average or mean for the variable of the cases in your sample
Median	The score that falls halfway between the highest score and the lowest score for the variable
Standard deviation	How far on average each score deviates from the mean for the variable
Range	The total range of scores (minimum value subtracted from maximum value) for the variable
Minimum value	For each variable, reports what the lowest number is
Maximum value	For each variable, reports what the highest number is

Definitions of results report components

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