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Homework Assignment week 2

Homework Assignment week 2

Q Week 2 Homework Assignment (20 points) This week’s assignment gives you practice in examining real world data. Instructions: Open data IPPS.SAV Select only cases from the state of Michigan. Remember to use quotation marks in your selection command.....SELECT IF (STATE = "MI"). Whenever we are using logical operators (<, =, or > ) for string variables, we have to use quotation marks (" "). Next, select only cases from the Grand Rapids Region Conduct a normality test for average medicare payments (MPAYMENTS). Report your results in form of a table similar to Table 2.2. Provide a statement on whether average medicare payments are normally distributed based on your results Create a histogram with an overlaid normal distribution curve similar to figure 2.6. Save all your commands to a syntax file Deliverables: Word document in APA style formatting containing: Table of normality test results with a statement about the results of the test Histogram with an overlaid normal distribution curve Brief comments about the average medicare payments based on your the histogram SPSS Syntax file

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1. Table 2.2 Table 2.2 Test for Normality on Average Medicare Payments Tests of Normality Kolmogorov-Smirnova Statistic df Sig. Average Medicare Payments .189 163065 .000 a. Lilliefors Significance Correction Results: The test was conducted on the variable named as average Medicare Payments. The normality test was performed as the results shown in Table 2.2 (Statistic = 0.189, p-value = 0.000). The p-value is less that the level of significance so, we can say that the distribution does not follow normal distribution.