Saturday, December 5, 2009

rounding on tables

So my understanding is that we only round to 2 decimal places on tables. What do we do with a number like 0.00049?

SPSS by default shows 3 decimal places. So that would be shown as 0.005. Rounding to 2 places would make that 0.01. However, looking at the original number, we would get 0.00.

These seem like quite different numbers. Do we put a note somewhere in the table?

2 comments:

KGL said...

Just so you know i am running these questions by Sung. As soon as he responds i will post those answers below.

KGL said...

These are Sung's responses:

1. Refer to previous answer on blog about how to report this. Also refer to p. 113-114 of the APA manual.