Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) - SPSS (part 6)

I demonstrate how to perform an analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) in SPSS. The first part of the series is relevant to the ANCOVA tested through the conventional approach to doing so by getting SPSS to estimate adjusted means through the GLM univariate utility. In the second part of the series, I demonstrate the exact correspondence between ANCOVA and multiple regression.

NB: The results of the analysis in this series found that males appear to have larger cranial capacities than females, even after controlling for the effects of body size. However, it should be important to emphasize that research has found that there are little to no general mean differences in IQ between males and females. Furthermore, there is neuroanatomical research to suggest that female brains appear to have more neurons per cubic cm than male brains. Thus, the difference in cranial capacity/brain size between the sexes may be counteracted by the differences in neuronal density.

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• ancova
• SPSS
• statistics