SPSS Statistics Workbook For Dummies

Chapter 13

Building Slightly More Complex Graphs

IN THIS CHAPTER

Working with clustered charts

Building multiple line charts

Understanding error bar charts

Making sense of scatterplots

Creating box and whiskers plots

A wide variety of chart types are available in SPSS. In this chapter, you discover how to create some of these different graph types. Although we don’t cover every combination of the chart features, you can use the steps here to produce some useful graphs.

You may be familiar with some of the simple graphs, but you’ll also see examples of charts that may be less familiar and aren't as simple.

Building Clustered Graphs

As shown in Chapter 7, a clustered bar chart is the most effective graph for displaying the results of a cross tabulation. In this chapter, we show a few different types of clustered charts.

Follow these steps to create a clustered bar chart:

1. Choose File  ⇒    Open  ⇒    Data and load the GSS2018.sav file.

   You can download the file from the book’s companion ...