Hi Matthew
I believe you can use a one-sample t-test, which allows you to enter the
test value (in this case the published mean) against which your data is
compared.
Hope that helps
All the best
Suzanne
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on 26/05/2009 12:58, Matthew Brown at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> I'm running an analysis on data I have collected for intrusive memories and
> images in GAD and I am wondering if there is a way to compare my data with
> that reported by other clinical groups in previous studies using SPSS? Is
> there a straight forward way of doing this, or will I go ahead and do a
> quick paper and pencil exercise comparing my means with the published means
> for other groups? I'm sure there must be an obvious answer to this.....
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
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