2.6 Bootstrapping in SPSS

2.6.1 Instructions

Figure 2.10: Bootstrapping in SPSS.

Figure 2.11: Interpreting bootstrap results in SPSS.

In principle, any sample statistic can be bootstrapped. SPSS, however, does not bootstrap sample statistics that we had better not use because they give bad (biased) results. For example, SPSS does not bootstrap the minimum value, maximum value or the range between minimum and maximum value of a variable.

SPSS reports bootstrapping results as confidence intervals. We will discuss confidence intervals in detail in the next chapter.