SPSS Tutorial

- How to do a Paired Samples T-test -

1) Select Statistics: Compare Means: Paired Samples T-Test (Figure 1). A menu like that in Figure 2 should be displayed.

Figure 1:

2) Highlight the two variables upon which you want to run your analysis. When you have the two highlighted, send them over to the right column with the arrow button. You can then define more variable pairs if you wish, but if that's all you want, then just click on OK.

Figure 2:

3) This table is some relevant descriptive data concerning your variables.

Figure 3:

4) This is the T statistic.

5) This is the p-value (significance) of the T statistic.