Note that the preview window may not adequately display the titles and such that you have specified.
Enter a title for the graph in the Content field.Ī basic histogram is now ready to be created. The Element Properties dialog opens, with the new element Title displayed in the list. (Arrow to the right on the task bar which begins with Gallery.) 
Select the Titles/Footnotes tab in the lower area. To display titles, subtitles, or footnotes on the histogram Confirm that the label, scale range and scale type properties are adequate for your variable, revise if necessary. Confirm that the Sort by and Direct properties are adequate for your variable, revise if necessary. Enter a label for the x-axis in the Axis Label field. Choose the Bar Style to be used, usually Bar. Select Display Normal Curve to overlay a normal curve on the histogram. Note that interval size for the bars can be controlled using the Set Parameters dialog by default SPSS auto-creates the intervals. For the Statistic to be used, choose Histogram. on the right hand side of the Chart Builder dialog), assign the properties to each of the chart elements: In the Element Properties dialog (if not already open, click Element Properties. In the Chart Builder dialog, click and drag the variable to be graphed (from the list on the left) to the X-Axis? area in the preview window.ĭon't worry that the preview graph fails to represent your data. Select the picture of the simple histogram and drag it to the large chart preview window.Ī crude preview will display and the Element Properties window will open. In the Gallery area at the bottom of the box, select Histogram from the listing. 
If you have defined the variable to be graphed, click OK in the Chart Builder warning dialog, if it displays.Now you are ready to design the histrogram. Before beginning the process to create the histogram, be sure to have defined the variable to be graphed using the Data > Define Variable Properties dialog box.The histogram will be created in the Output window, after you click "OK".
You can design a histogram using the available options. These instructions are based on the student version of PASW (SPSS) version 18.
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