Topic 7: B – Side-By-Side Boxplots
CO-7: Use statistical software to analyze public health data.
Video (1:59)
The following video illustrates exploratory data analysis in Case CQ (or QC) where we wish to obtain side-by-side boxplots to compare a quantitative variables within the levels of a categorical variable. Here we will use CHART BUIILDER to accomplish this task. The following files are associated with this video.
- DATASET USED:
- SPSS OUTPUT CREATED:
- Menus and Steps Used:
- Double-click on the SPSS dataset (STEP3) to open SPSS with that data loaded
- For Side-by-Side Boxplots – Go to GRAPHS – CHART BUILDER
- Select Boxplots from the lower left menu
- Double-Click or drag the FIRST chart into the graph preview area (reset the tool if needed)
- Drag a quantitative variable onto the y-axis
- Drag a categorical variable onto the x-axis
- Click OK
- Save SPSS output by going to the output and File – Save or by closing SPSS and following the prompts
This document is linked from our main SPSS page under Software.