Question

A lab instructor asked her class of 30 college seniors how many beers or mixed drinks they had last Saturday night that marked the beginning of the Spring Break. The data are presented below.

Female	Male
1	4
0	3
2	3
3	5
0	8
0	0
0	3
1	4
2	0
2	5
3	5
6	0
4	3
0	4
0	4

Use SPSS to compute the mean and standard deviation of the number of drinks consumed by each of male and female drinkers.

Answer 1

Use SPSS to compute the mean and standard deviation of the number of drinks consumed by each of male and female drinkers.

SPSS code:

DESCRIPTIVES VARIABLES=Female Male

/STATISTICS=MEAN STDDEV MIN MAX.

SPSS output:

Descriptive Statistics
	N	Minimum	Maximum	Mean	Std. Deviation
Female-Number of beers	15	0	6	1.60	1.805
Male-Number of beers	15	0	8	3.40	2.165
Valid N (listwise)	15

Data file