For some reason people have sleepless nights worrying if they’ll fail their thesis for plagiarism. So let’s have a look if you really can plagiarize without knowing it and what you can do to be sure you’re on the safe side. Plagiarism fundamentally means you cheated. However, as most things in life, it’s not that black and white. Yes, the big bad plagiarism of cut and paste and...

Here we go for another SPSS tutorial, this time to show you a new test: Chi-Square. Chi-Square is a test of association between two categorical variables. It does NOT explain causality, but it allows the determination if there is an association among the two (or more) categorical variables. For this reason, Chi-Square is a very common test used in marketing. For example, when...

Often complaint of students complain that it is impossible to make good graphs with SPSS. And to be honest, I agree. There are many limitations to making graphs in SPSS. And this is why usually I always develop my graphs for research papers, theses (when I did my PhD) in Excel. Every time when you run a statistical test in SPSS, a new window appears with of your results. This is...

Struggling to understand how to use SPSS for your analysis? No worries my friend, my students have the exact same problem every semester. So I decided to develop a series of tutorial videos to help you run your analysis. Here, we’ll discuss a ONE-WAY ANOVA. What is a One-Way ANOVA? A One-Way ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) is a test that allows us to identify differences between...

Struggling to understand how to use SPSS for your analysis? Every semester I face this issue with my students: Panic and insecurity to run certain analysis or to use SPSS. So I decided to develop a series of tutorial videos to help you run your analysis. Here, we’ll discuss the Dependent Samples T-Test (Also called Paired Samples T-Test). What is a Dependent Samples T-Test?...