September 2017
Beginner to intermediate
446 pages
9h 17m
English
The region field used in the preceding two examples is coded numerically as one through nine, but the field is nominal in terms of the level of measurement. If the independent factor used as the basis for comparing Means is ordinal or interval, however, adding the test of linearity statistic provides useful additional information. The type of place the respondent lived in when they were growing up (the RES16 field) is ordinal since larger values correspond to larger community sizes (see the following figure):

Return to the Means dialog and place the RES16 field in the first layer of the independent list box at the ...
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