Exploring data can help to determine whether the statistical techniques that you are considering for data analysis are appropriate. The Explore procedure provides a variety of visual and numerical summaries of the data, either for all cases or separately for groups of cases. The dependent variable must be a scale variable, while the grouping variables may be ordinal or nominal.

With the Explore procedure, you can:

- Screen data
- Identify outliers
- Check assumptions
- Characterize differences among groups of cases