Date:         Mon, 7 Jun 1999 13:46:41 -0500
Reply-To:     "Nichols, David" <nichols@SPSS.COM>
Sender:       "SPSSX(r) Discussion" <SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         "Nichols, David" <nichols@SPSS.COM>
Subject:      Re: Using Exact Tests to isolate significant effects

CROSSTABS won't automate this for you. If you want to compare each pair of
departments, you'd have to specify that number of analyses.
 
David Nichols
Principal Support Statistician and
Manager of Statistical Support
SPSS Inc.
 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cclark@URGRGCC.EDU [mailto:cclark@URGRGCC.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 10:38 AM
> To: SPSSX-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU
> Subject: Using Exact Tests to isolate significant effects
>
>
> I have used the crosstabs Monte Carlo method to identify that there
> is a significant differance between academic departments on a
> measure of satisfaction with the quality of teaching.  However, how
> do I isolate which specific effects are significantly
> different without
> running separate chi squares on all possible combinations of
> department pairs?  Over 90% of the cells have fewer than 5
> observations, and cell count varies from 0 to 12, so some type of
> exact test is needed.
>
> Catherine S. Clark
> Institutional Research
> University of Rio Grande
> Rio Grande OH 45674
>
> (740) 245-7532 voice, 5035 fax
>
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