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Data Preparation

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Once you have decided which test best suits your data and your analytic needs, it’s time to open up SPSS and prepare the data for testing. We will now give some advice about how to read your data in SPSS.

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    Standard deviation (s.d.) is a measure of a dispersion. In a simple term, s.d. measures how large your data spreads away from the mean.

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Mat Roni, S., Merga, M.K., Morris, J.E. (2020). Data Preparation. In: Conducting Quantitative Research in Education. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-9132-3_5

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