10.1 Learning Outcomes

After completing this lab, you should be able to

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

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

• The goal of correlation analyses, including what types of research questions it can be used to test
• How to interpret a Pearson’s r correlation coefficient

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 Freedman dataset directly from the carData package. For further information about the dataset and variables, refer to the documentation.