Example of tallying individual variables
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Suppose you are studying the influence of patient activity on the performance of a new drug. After collecting your data, you would like to examine the distribution of patient activity.

1    Open the worksheet EXH_TABL.MTW. If you have not already done so, set the value order for the variable Activity.

2    Choose Stat > Tables > Tally Individual Variables.

3    In Variables, enter Activity.

4    Under Display, check Counts, Percents, Cumulative counts, and Cumulative percents. Click OK.

Session window output

Tally for Discrete Variables: Activity

 

 

Activity  Count  CumCnt  Percent  CumPct

  Slight      9       9     9.89    9.89

Moderate     61      70    67.03   76.92

   A lot     21      91    23.08  100.00

      N=     91

Interpreting the results

You have 9 subjects with slight activity level, representing 9.89% of all the individuals in the study. You have 61 subjects with moderate activity level.

The cumulative count of 70 represents individuals in the slight and moderate activity category The cumulative percentage indicates that 76.92% (70/91) of the subjects in your study had slight or moderate activity levels. The cumulative percentage sums to 100% (9.89+67.03+23.08).