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English achievement
Francis 5.1.2 (pp. 120-122)[1]
Data file: SCHL8.sav
- Design
Research question: To what extent can English Achievement in Year 8 be explained by socio-educational level (of parents), student gender, amount of English homework done by students and attentiveness paid in class?
- DV = engach (English Achievement)
- IV1 = sel (Socio-educational Level)
- IV2 = sex (Student gender)
- IV3 = enghomewk (Freq of English homework)
- IV4 = attent (Attentiveness in Year 8)
- Standard MLR

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REGRESSION /DESCRIPTIVES MEAN STDDEV CORR SIG N /MISSING LISTWISE /STATISTICS COEFF OUTS CI R ANOVA ZPP /CRITERIA=PIN(.05) POUT(.10) /NOORIGIN /DEPENDENT engach /METHOD=ENTER sel sex enghomwk attent. |
- Hierarchical MLR
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REGRESSION /DESCRIPTIVES MEAN STDDEV CORR SIG N /MISSING LISTWISE /STATISTICS COEFF OUTS CI R ANOVA CHANGE ZPP /CRITERIA=PIN(.05) POUT(.10) /NOORIGIN /DEPENDENT engach /METHOD=ENTER sex sel /METHOD=ENTER attent enghomwk. |
- Stepwise MLR
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REGRESSION /DESCRIPTIVES MEAN STDDEV CORR SIG N /MISSING LISTWISE /STATISTICS COEFF OUTS CI R ANOVA CHANGE ZPP /CRITERIA=PIN(.05) POUT(.10) /NOORIGIN /DEPENDENT engach /METHOD=STEPWISE sex sel attent enghomwk. |
- Reference
Francis, G. (2007). Multiple linear regression (Section 5.1). In Introduction to SPSS for Windows: v. 15.0 and 14.0 with Notes for Studentware (5th ed.). Sydney: Pearson Education. Support site
- ↑ Francis, G. (2007). Introduction to SPSS for Windows: v. 15.0 and 14.0 with Notes for Studentware (5th ed.). Sydney: Pearson Education. | Support site