Question

Which of the following phrases are accurate descriptions of MEC

Answer 1

Answer:

Click the Variable View tab. Type the name for your first variable under the Name column. You can also enter other information about the variable, such as the type (the default is “numeric”), width, decimals, label, etc. Type the name for each variable that you plan to include in your dataset. In this example, I will type “School_Class” since I plan to include a variable for the class level of each student (i.e., 1 = first year, 2 = second year, 3 = third year, and 4 = fourth year). I will also specify 0 decimals since my variable values will only include whole numbers. (The default is two decimals.)

Snapshot of variable view immediately after creating a new variable called School_Class. The number of decimal places has been changed to 0.

Click the Data View tab. Any variable names that you entered in Variable View will now be included in the columns (one variable name per column). You can see that School_Class appears in the first column in this example.

Snapshot of the Data View after initializing a new variable in the Variable View. The header in the first column now displays the variable name School_Class.

Now you can enter values for each case. In this example, cases represent students. For each student, enter a value for their class level in the cell that corresponds to