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In SPPS, how does one interpret the last two symbols/letters 'E4' in an arithmetic mean? For example, mean monthly family income is shown as 3.79E4. What does E4 symbolise? How can we interpret it?

gung - Reinstate Monica
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S.Ramagokula krishnan
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  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_notation – Tim Aug 24 '16 at 07:41
  • Questions about notation are on topic here. This question seems perfectly fine to me. – gung - Reinstate Monica Aug 24 '16 at 09:42
  • Duplicates 1. http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/138856/what-does-8-6e-28-mean-in-the-result-from-a-white-test-testing-for-heteroscedast 2. http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/155163/what-does-the-number-e-mean 3. http://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/161317/in-r-line-slope-changes-when-only-x-values-as-shifted – Glen_b Aug 24 '16 at 10:17

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This is the exponential form: $3.79E4=3.79 \times 10^4$

Nick
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  • You can force Statistics not to use scientific notation for small values via Edit > Options > General then check "No scientific notation ..." – JKP Aug 24 '16 at 13:49