Gillian and Jeremy, you are wonderful! Once I understand something statistical and it sheds light on my findings I get so excited.
Gillian, I needed things explained to me step by step, so thank you so much for the time you spent with the examples. Also, I have been looking into spss and statistical books for a while now, but have found it too difficult to decide which would be best for me. I will have a look at some of the one's you have suggested to see what I think of them.
Jeremy, when you say not to mix up the correlation with the p-value, do you mean that the correlation is the number on the 'Pearson Correlation' row (i.e. -.159(*); .207(*)) whereas the p-value is the significance level (i.e. significant at the 0.01 or 0.05 level). Thanks for the clarification.
I am off to play with my data again!
Kind Regards,
Nicola Davies,
BSc; MSc Comm.; PhD Candidate
Liasion Officer for the DHP Postgraduate Subcommittee
-----Original Message-----
From: Research of postgraduate psychologists. on behalf of Jeremy Miles
Sent: Tue 20/03/2007 19:46
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: The Direction of Correlations
If they've got a minus sign in front of them, they're negative. If not,
they're positive.
Don't mix up the correlation with the p-value, it's very easy to do.
Jeremy
On 20/03/07, Davies, Nicola <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I am in the process of doing some correlations with my data (in SPSS 13.0). I
> am getting some significant correlations, but would like some feedback on
> how I can tell the direction of these correlations? I know this may seem a
> silly question, but I am statically illiterate (but learning a great deal as
> I go along :0)
>
> Thank you in advance!
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Nicola Davies,
> BSc; MSc Comm.; PhD Candidate
> Liasion Officer for the DHP Postgraduate Subcommittee
>
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Jeremy Miles
Learning statistics blog: www.jeremymiles.co.uk/learningstats
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