Analisis Chi Square Spss. As you can see below spss calculates a number of different measures of association. It cannot make comparisons between continuous variables or between categorical and continuous variables.
In the main dialog we ll enter one variable into the r ow s box and the other into c olumn s. Statistical independence or association between two or more categorical variables. The chi square test of independence is commonly used to test the following.
This is where the chi square statistic comes into play.
Since sex has only 2 categories male or female using it as our column variable results in a table that s rather narrow and high. It cannot make comparisons between continuous variables or between categorical and continuous variables. The chi square statistic appears in the value column immediately to the right of pearson chi square. In addition the test compares the proportions that is the frequency of cases observed in each of the categories with values that would be expected to have if there is no relationship between the variables.