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The document discusses descriptive statistics in JASP. It provides instructions on opening a sample dataset, selecting variables, and obtaining descriptive statistics - including the mean, median, mode, range, variance, standard error, skew, and kurtosis. The output is copied and pasted into a Word document for analysis and interpretation. The summary provides the high-level overview of the key steps and information presented in the document in 3 sentences.

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4 Descriptive Statistics JASP

The document discusses descriptive statistics in JASP. It provides instructions on opening a sample dataset, selecting variables, and obtaining descriptive statistics - including the mean, median, mode, range, variance, standard error, skew, and kurtosis. The output is copied and pasted into a Word document for analysis and interpretation. The summary provides the high-level overview of the key steps and information presented in the document in 3 sentences.

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Part 4 Descriptive Statistics

Descriptive Statistics in JASP:


Click “File”  “Open”  “Data Library” to get started with a practice dataset included in JASP.
If you have an excel file or .csv you can use the Computer option to select that file.

The specific file we want is “Fear of Statistics”, which is located in the “1. Descriptives” Folder.

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Double click on the J icon to open the dataset in JASP. Note that JASP opens a new
window for every new dataset you open.

Here’s the dataset we selected:

To get descriptive statistics for each variable (column), we can click on “Descriptives” 
“Descriptive Statistics”.

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Here is the new window it will pull up:

From here select the variables you want to analyze and click the arrow to move them over to the
box on the right. For this example, I’m just going to select Q01, Q02, Q03, and Q04. (Side-note:
if you need to select a bunch of variables that are all in order, you can click on the first one, hold
down the shift key and then click on the last one; this will select the first and last variable, plus
all of the ones in-between. If you need to select a few variables that aren’t grouped together, you
can hold down the ctrl key while selecting the ones you need so you can move them all at once.)

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To actually get the stats you need click on the arrow to the left of “Statistics”, and select all of
the options you want. Some of the most common descriptive stats you will use are mean,
median, mode, range, variance, standard error (SE) of the mean, skew, and kurtosis. To practice
let’s select all of those and see what we get. (Note: JASP default selects the min. and max. values
to be included in the output, but if you don’t want or need them you can always unselect them.)

Just like that, we have all of the descriptive stats we need! Now to save that, click the down
arrow next to “Descriptives” in the output window, click “Copy”.

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Now you can go to Microsoft Office Word (or a similar program), open new blank document,
right click (or use Ctrl + V or Command + V) to paste the output into the blank document.

Descriptives
Descriptive Statistics
  Q01 Q02 Q03 Q04
Valid 2571 2571 2571 2571
Missing 0 0 0 0
Mean 3.626 4.377 3.415 3.214
Std. Error of Mean 0.01633 0.01678 0.02120 0.01871
Median 4.000 5.000 3.000 3.000
Mode 4.000 5.000 3.000 4.000
Std. Deviation 0.8280 0.8511 1.075 0.9485
Variance 0.6856 0.7243 1.156 0.8997
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Skewness -0.6553 -1.489 -0.3856
0.08951
Std. Error of Skewness 0.04828 0.04828 0.04828 0.04828
Kurtosis 0.6119 2.047 -0.7776 -0.2839
Std. Error of Kurtosis 0.09652 0.09652 0.09652 0.09652
Minimum 1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000
Maximum 5.000 5.000 5.000 5.000

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