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Delport, D. H. (2021). Teaching first-year statistics students with Covid-19 real-world data: Graphs. Teaching Statistics, 43(1), 36-43.

Gordon, M., & Courtney, R. (2018). SPSS. In B. B. Frey (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of educational research, measurement, and evaluation (pp. 1577-1583). SAGE.
This resource presents an introduction to the basic commands available in SPSS. It presents the description of the different windows found in the software, as well as instructions to conduct basic analyses.

IBM SPSS. Tutorials charts. IBM.

Kulas, J. T., Roji, R., & Smith, A. M. (2021). IBM SPSS essentials (2nd ed.). Wiley.
Chapter 7 of the textbook describes descriptive statistics.

Maruta, A., & Kato, M. P. (2022). Intent-aware data visualization recommendation. Data Science and Engineering, 7, 301-315. doi: 10.1007/s41019-022-00191-7

Potter, G. L., Huffman, G. J., Bolvin, D. T., Bosilovich, M. G., Hertz, J., & Carriere, L. E. (2020). Histogram anomaly time series: A compact graphical representation of spatial time series data sets. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 101(12), E2133-E2137.

Clark, T., & Bolt, S. (Eds.) (2022). Bar chart. Encyclopedia of research design. SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071812082
This resource presents the importance of using bar charts to depict descriptive data. Specifically, presenting nominal and ordinal scale data.
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Mihaescu, O. (Ed.) (2022). Frequency distributions. Encyclopedia of research design. SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071812082
Frequency distributions are used to depict all the values that the variable has taken in a dataset. They are very useful in descriptive statistics, as they allow the possibility of viewing each score and the respective frequency.
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Persaud, N. (Ed.) (2022). Graphical display of data. Encyclopedia of research design. SAGE. https://doi.org/10.4135/9781071812082
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Booker-Zorigian, B. (2021, July 18). Stats I Week 2 Assignment A, Part 1 of 1 [Video]. Kaltura.

Booker-Zorigian, B. (2021, July 18). Stats I Week 2 Assignment B, Part 1 of 1 [Video]. Kaltura.
These two videos discuss variable types and descriptive statistics. Further, they provide a walkthrough of SPSS.