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From the data screen, click on
√ Analyze
√ Regression
√ Linear
Your screen should now look like the one below. We will send the dependent variable, the one we are trying to predict, to the Dependent box. Click on Wechsler Full Scale IQ 3 and send it to the Dependent box.
Your screen should now look like the following one. Next we will place all of the independent variables in the Independent(s) box. I this example, remember that we are using Performance 1 through Verbal 5.
After you have placed all 10 of these variables in the Independent(s) box, your screen will look like the following one.
Next we will click on Method and change it from the default of Enter to Stepwise.
Click on Stepwise.
After clicking on Stepwise, your screen will look like the one below.
Click on Statistics
After clicking on Statistics, you will now
√ Click on Estimates (default already checked)
√ Model fit (default already checked)
√ R squared change
√ Descriptives
√ Collinearity Diagnostics
√ Durbin-Watson
Your screen should like the one below. Now click on Continue.
Next click on
√ OK
Go to the Output file if SPSS does not auomatically send you there.
