Compute descriptives statistics

Once back at the main window, you can see the number of participants and items of the selected data and you can also see all the items in the included listbox. If you want to exclude some items from the analysis, you can do it by pressing the “>” button, and if you want to re-include some, use “<”. Also, you can check your data on the next tab “View data”.

 

In the next tab “Descriptive Statistics” you can select which type of dispersion matrix will be used in the following analysis. Additionally, you can select if parallel analysis will be computed checking the “Optimal Implementation of Parallel Analysis (PA)” option, and if you check it, it’s possible to select the option of plotting a graphic of the percentage of explained variance of the real data and the generated with Parallel Analysis.

When you’re finished configuring data, click “Compute” and the analysis will start. The time required to perform the analysis is very variable, depending on the selected options and the provided data. Once the analysis is complete, you can see the output in the subwindow, launch the output in a new window, save the output in plaintext (.txt), latex file (.tex) or Rich Text Format (.rtf).