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SPSS One Sample T-Test

BASICS REGRESSION ANOVA T-TEST CORRELATION

By Ruben Geert van den Berg on September 16, 2014 under SPSS T Test Tutorials.

SPSS one-sample t-test tests if the mean of a single metric variable is equal to some hypothesized population value. The figure illustrates the basic idea.

SPSS One Sample T-Test - Example A scientist from Greenpeace believes that herrings in the North Sea don't grow as large as they used to. It's well known that - on average - herrings should weigh 400 grams. The scientist catches and weighs 40 herrings, resulting in herrings.sav. Can we conclude from these data that the average herring weighs less than 400 grams? We'll open the data by running the syntax below.

*1. Set default directory. cd 'd:downloaded'. /*or wherever data file is located. *2. Open data. get file 'herrings.sav'.

1. Quick Data Check Before we run any statistical tests, we always first want to have a basic idea of what the data look like. A fast way for doing so is taking a look at the histogram for body_weight. If we generate it by using FREQUENCIES, we'll get some helpful summary statistics in our chart as well. The required syntax is so simple that we won't bother about clicking through the menu here. We added /FORMAT NOTABLE to the command in order to suppress the actual frequency table; right now, we just want a histogram and some summary statistics.

*Inspect the data. frequencies body_weight /format notable /histogram.

There are no very large or very small values for body_weight. The data thus look plausible. N = 40 means that the histogram is based on 40 cases (our entire sample). This tells us that there are no missing values. The mean weight is around 370 grams, which is 30 grams lower than the hypothesized 400 grams. The question is now: “if the average weight in the population is 400 grams, then what's the chance of finding a mean weight of only 370 grams in a sample of n = 40?”

2. Assumptions One Sample T-Test Results from statistical procedures can only be taken seriously insofar as relevant assumptions are met. For a one-sample t-test, these are 1. independent and identically distributed variables (or, less precisely, “independent observations”); 2. normality: the test variable is normally distributed in the population; Assumption 1 is beyond the scope of this tutorial. We assume it's been met by the data. The normality assumption not holding doesn't really affect the results for reasonable sample sizes (say, N > 30).

3. Run SPSS One-Sample T-Test

The screenshot walks you through running an SPSS one-sample t-test. Clicking Paste results in the syntax below.

*Run one sample t-test. T-TEST /TESTVAL=400 /MISSING=ANALYSIS /VARIABLES=body_weight /CRITERIA=CI(.95).

4. SPSS One-Sample T-Test Output

We'll first turn our attention to the One-Sample Statistics table. We already saw most of these statistics in our histogram but this table comes in a handier format for reporting these results.

The actual t-test results are found in the One-Sample Test table. - The t value and its degrees of freedom (df) are not immediately interesting but we'll need them for reporting later on. The p value, denoted by “Sig. (2-tailed)” is .02; if the population mean is exactly 400 grams, then there's only a 2% chance of finding the result we did. We usually reject the null hypothesis if p < .05. We thus conclude that herrings do not weight 400 grams (but probably less than that). It's important to notice that the p value of .02 is 2-tailed. This means that the p value consists of a 1% chance for finding a difference < -30 grams and another 1% chance for finding a difference > 30 grams. The Mean Difference is simply the sample mean minus the hypothesized mean (369.55 - 400 = -30.45). We could have calculated it ourselves from previously discussed results.

5. Reporting a One-Sample T-Test Regarding descriptive statistics, the very least we should report, is the mean, standard deviation and N on which these are based. Since these statistics don't say everything about the data, we personally like to include a histogram as well. We may report the t-test results by writing “we found that, on average, herrings weighed less than 400 grams; t(39) = -2.4, p = .020.”

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This Tutorial has 10 Comments By Deepak on March 24th, 2017 This is really very helpful tutorial. I congratulate you for your efforts and wish you all the best. By pedro on January 12th, 2017 the best tutorial of the entire world. I see this tutorial everyday just to light my heart a little bit By Ruben Geert van den Berg on August 5th, 2016 Hi Remya, thanks for your great comment! Basically, we avoid 1-tailed tests whenever we can because choosing to do so renders it easier to find statistically significant results. This opens the door to abuse: if we want to find low p-values, we just claim that we're interested in one-tailed hypotheses -and reversely. We therefore prefer to choose the more conservative option of 2-tailed tests as much as possible. Some social scientists agree with this reasoning and some don't. Those who don't would certainly agree with you that a 1-tailed test is the more appropriate option here. By Remya Raju on August 5th, 2016 very helpful tutorial...In reporting the output,why we use p=0.02 as its the value for two tailed test? Here our null hypothesis is one tailed. By deepti on July 18th, 2016 very good

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