This SPSS tutorial explains how to test reliability using Cronbach's Alpha in SPSS. What is reliability and Cronbach's Alpha Reliability means whether the data are consistent using different instruments to measure the data. One example is the questionnaire design, in which more than one questions are asking the same thing but using different wordings. If the answers are inconsistent then the data has low reliability. Cronbach's Alpha is a common measure for reliability and internal consistency...

This SPSS tutorial explains how to generate random number in SPSS (decimal and whole number). You may also want to read: Excel VBA generate non-duplicated random number Assign unique random number using Excel SPSS generate random number (decimal number) Assume that we have 10 data from 1 to 10.   Navigate to Transform > Compute Variable   On the left hand side, type a name for the Target Variable, which is the new variable that contains the random nu...

This SPSS tutorial explains how to conduct Simple Random Sampling using Select Cases in SPSS. You may also want to read: Excel VBA generate non-duplicated random number Assign unique random number using Excel SPSS Simple Random Sampling In conventional simple random sampling, you need to assign an ascending number to each value of a variable and then generate a random number to help you select the corresponding data. While SPSS can generate random number using Compute Variable, it ...

This SPSS tutorial explains how to use SPSS Automatic Recode to convert variable from string to number (from Nominal to Scale). SPSS Automatic Recode In SPSS, the ideal data source is to convert all nominal data to numeric data, and then use Value Labels to map the corresponding text, it is because many analysis cannot use nominal data. Automatic Recode is a function to create a new column and automatically convert nominal variable from text to number. It also allows conversion of numeric v...