Please suggest me an easier way to report the results of Spearman's correlation. Though the matrix is lengthy i-e; 12 X 12. How can I report it in least word count(around 200)?
See: http://www.oswego.edu/Documents/psychology/spss/spearman.pdf
http://cnx.org/contents/[email protected]:5/Presenting_and_Communicating_Y
There is no way around the fact that you have dozens of correlations to report. Just use a table. Reference the table in your text: something like "Table 1 displays the correlations between..." and proceed to discuss the findings that actually matter. The Table goes on a separate page at the end of your paper, after the References but before any Figures. Most journals will not hold a table against you in terms of word count, though they may count it as a page.
If you are submitting to a conference and the on-line system for submissions counts everything as a word, do not include the table. (It probably won't come through properly when printed anyway.) Just report the essential correlations in your proposal and explain that all results will be presented with your poster or paper.
In the (free and online) web application CaviR, you can make your correlation table right away in APA style:
1. Go to www.cavir-statistics.com
2. Upload your datafile
3. Go to 'Correlations' and select the variables you want in your table. Here, you can choose/change the order of the variables.
4. Select whether you want to see the descriptives or not.
5. Select, copy and paste (as RTF) into Word.
Cheers!
Joachim
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