Figure 2.31: Figure 4.27 Menu for the “Descriptives” Command Clicking on “Descriptives” in Figure 4.26 opens up this menu. Note that the variable for which the z scores, or “standardized values” as SPSS calls them here, are to be calculated has been moved to the “Variable(s)” box. And, importantly, the box has been checked to “Save standardized values as variables.”