, Descriptive Statistics, Crosstabs.
Put "Sex" into Row(s): and "Crisis plan" into Column(s):.
Click Statistics, Chi-square.
Now we are ready, so Continue, OK.
We get the following output:
| Sex * Crisis plan Crosstabulation
|
| Count
|
| | Crisis plan | Total
|
| Absent | Present
|
| Sex | Girl | 337 | 77 | 414
|
| Boy | 539 | 80 | 619
|
| Total | 876 | 157 | 1033
|
| Chi-Square Tests
|
| | Value | df | Asymp. Sig.
(2-sided) | Exact Sig.
(2-sided) | Exact Sig.
(1-sided)
|
| Pearson Chi-Square | 6.199b | 1 | .013
|
| Continuity Correction a | 5.766 | 1 | .016
|
| Likelihood Ratio | 6.105 | 1 | .013
|
| Fisher's Exact Test | | | | .013 | .009
|
| Linear-by-Linear Association | 6.193 | 1 | .013
|
| N of Valid Cases | 1033
|
| a. Computed only for a 2x2 table
|
| b. 0 cells (.0%) have expected count less than 5. The minimum expected count is 62.92.
|
Clearly girls are more likely to have crisis plans than boys.
The other variables are all quantitative and, in view of the large sample size,
a z test is indicated.
We use the independent samples t test with unequal variances to get this.
Click Analyze, Compare Means, Independent Samples T Test.
Put "Age (years)", "Hours of wheezing", "Previous admissions", "Pulse (beats/min)",
and "Respiration (breaths/min)" into Test variable(s) and "Crisis plan"
into Group Variable:.
Click Define Groups and put 0 and 1 into the boxes, Continue, OK.
We get:
| Group Statistics
|
| | Crisis plan | N | Mean | Std. Deviation | Std. Error
Mean
|
Age (years)
| Absent | 874 | 3.7094 | 3.01660 | .10204
|
| Present | 157 | 5.3439 | 3.76508 | .30049
|
Hours of wheezing
| Absent | 873 | 36.1615 | 67.92851 | 2.29903
|
| Present | 155 | 43.6387 | 86.40533 | 6.94024
|
Previous admissions
| Absent | 876 | 2.00 | 5.732 | .194
|
| Present | 154 | 6.73 | 6.392 | .515
|
Pulse (beats/min)
| Absent | 869 | 136.5201 | 20.86844 | .70791
|
| Present | 154 | 133.2532 | 23.46087 | 1.89053
|
Respiration (breaths/min)
| Absent | 871 | 44.8875 | 13.18459 | .44674
|
| Present | 149 | 41.2349 | 12.51561 | 1.02532
|
| Independent Samples Test
|
| | Levene's Test for Equality of Variances | t-test for Equality of Means
|
| t | df | Sig. (2-tailed) | Mean Difference | Std. Error Difference | 95% Confidence Interval of the Difference
|
| F | Sig. | Lower | Upper
|
| Age (years) | Equal variances assumed | 24.243 | .000 | -6.003 | 1029 | .000 | -1.63457 | .27231 | -2.16892 | -1.10021
|
| Equal variances not assumed | -5.151 | 193.592 | .000 | -1.63457 | .31734 | -2.26045 | -1.00868
|
| Hours of wheezing | Equal variances assumed | 5.872 | .016 | -1.208 | 1026 | .227 | -7.47720 | 6.18925 | -19.62223 | 4.66783
|
| Equal variances not assumed | -1.023 | 189.250 | .308 | -7.47720 | 7.31112 | -21.89896 | 6.94457
|
| Previous admissions | Equal variances assumed | 26.194 | .000 | -9.265 | 1028 | .000 | -4.724 | .510 | -5.724 | -3.723
|
| Equal variances not assumed | -8.585 | 198.625 | .000 | -4.724 | .550 | -5.809 | -3.639
|
| Pulse (beats/min) | Equal variances assumed | 3.799 | .052 | 1.756 | 1021 | .079 | 3.26689 | 1.86028 | -.38352 | 6.91731
|
| Equal variances not assumed | 1.618 | 198.227 | .107 | 3.26689 | 2.01872 | -.71404 | 7.24782
|
| Respiration (breaths/min) | Equal variances assumed | .546 | .460 | 3.148 | 1018 | .002 | 3.65259 | 1.16043 | 1.37548 | 5.92970
|
| Equal variances not assumed | 3.266 | 208.251 | .001 | 3.65259 | 1.11842 | 1.44772 | 5.85746
|
Age, previous admissions, and respiration are significantly related to the crisis plan.
Children given a crisis plan were more likely to be girls than were other children,
and tended to be older, to have had more previous admissions, and to have slower respiration.
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