9.1 Learning Outcomes

After completing this lab, you should be able to

• Conduct regression analyses in R Commander and SPSS
• Interpret the output of a regression analysis from R Commander and SPSS
• Report the results of a regression analysis in APA style

Before you begin, make sure you understand the following concepts from the lecture portion of the course

• The goal of regression, including what types of research questions it can be used to test
• The concepts behind regression analyses
  • F and r² values
  • Regression coefficients

This lab will require you to load data into R Commander and SPSS. You can review this skill in the videos on R Commander basics (beginning at 3:32) and SPSS basics (beginning at 0:48).

You can download the dataset we will be using in this lab here. In R Commander, you can load the Bfox dataset directly from the carData package. For further information about the dataset and variables, refer to the documentation.