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We now pull down “Analyze,” and go to “Regression,” and then “Linear,” as
shown in Figure 9.21 (see arrows).
After we click/let go of “Regression/Linear,” we get the dialog box shown in
Figure 9.22 .
We now drag “Y” over to the “Dependent” rectangle, and X to the “Independent”
rectangle. (We weren't kidding you when we said that you needed to become familiar
with the terms “dependent variable” and “independent variable”!) This is shown in
Figure 9.23 (see arrows).
We are now ready to click “OK” and obtain our output. The output is shown in
Figure 9.24 .
The output has exactly the same values that the Excel output had, although it
does not have the conidence intervals for the coeficients, but they're easy to deter-
mine. See Sidebar coming up. The coeficients are circled; notice that SPSS calls the
intercept the “constant.” That's ine, and we point it out only to illustrate how each
FIGURE 9.21
Accessing linear regression in SPSS; illustrative data.