EMT Practice Test

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Question1: What statistical test should be used to assess whether the percentage differences observed in a crosstabs table could have occurred by chance?

Question2: Consider two variables, my_income and my_spouses_income, in the dataset below. You created a third variable, total_income using the Compute Variable dialog and the following expression: total_income = rd my_income + my_spouses_income. True or false: the value for the 3 case will be a system-missing value.

Question3: IBM SPSS Statistics system variables can be:

Question4: The Date and Time Wizard can be used to do which operation? (Choose all that apply.)

Question5: The IBM SPSS Statistics Select Cases provides various ways to select cases included in further analysis.
If you needed to conduct analysis on those respondents whose age is more than 30 years, earning in excess of $40000, which option in this dialog would you choose to specify these criteria?

Question6: True or false: in the output of the CROSSTABS procedure, large residuals indicate agreement between the data and the null hypothesis of independence.

Question7: Which interpretation is correct for this Regression Coefficients table?

Question8: In order to access the New Custom Attribute feature in the Data Editor, the Data Editor must be viewed from the:

Question9: Suppose you want to get help on the Cumulative Percent column in a FREQUENCIES table. Using the figure below, how would you do it?

Question10: Which statement is true about IQR (interquartile range)? (Choose two.)

Question11: What happens when you use the Output option Filter out unselected cases in the Select Cases... dialog to create a filter variable and retain all cases in the same data file?

Question12: Which feature would you use to create a new variable whose values represent the number of times that each respondent answered Strongly Agree to a series of satisfaction questions?

Question13: What type of graph would you use to see the distribution of a scale variable?

Question14: If you request an aggregated dataset or data file in the Aggregate procedure, the number of cases in the new aggregated file is equal to what?

Question15: In the Aggregate data procedure, if you specify more than one Break Variable, ________________ in the Break Variables list will determine case order.

Question16: The table below shows statistics for two variables. True or false: all people having a valid value for the variable AGE WHEN FIRST MARRIED also have a valid value for the variable AGE OF RESPONDENT.

Question17: Which operation does this Identify Duplicate Cases dialog not perform?

Question18: You have been asked to create a categorical variable from a scale variable, income, illustrated in the histogram below. The resulting categorical variable must have 5 categories with an approximately equal number of cases in each category. Which way would you accomplish this using the IBM SPSS Statistics Visual Binning dialog?

Question19: What information is contained in the journal file?

Question20: What is the main advantage of using syntax?

Question21: True or false: as the sample size increases, the amount of variability in the distribution of sample means increases.

Question22: True or false: the text file shown in the figure below is an example of a fixed format text file.

Question23: Which operations are available from the File menu?

Question24: The Merge Files facility is located under which menu?

Question25: With IBM SPSS Statistics you can assign one of three levels of measurement to a variable. Which is the correct list of all three levels?

Question26: When you read data stored in an Excel file via File...Open...Data, you may need to specify which options?
(Choose three.)

Question27: Which variable name is correctly formed for use in an IBM SPSS Statistics data file?

Question28: If you build an expression manually, as opposed to using a function (e.g., specify (V1+V2)/2 instead of MEAN(V1,V2)), which statement is true?

Question29: The reason you would select the check box next to "indicate case source variable" in the Add Cases dialog box is to:

Question30: Which Pivoting Tray corresponds to the illustrated cross tabulation?

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B:

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Question31: If you use the IBM SPSS Statistics Select Cases dialog to conduct analysis on a subject of cases and you want to keep all cases in the same dataset, which option is appropriate?