To explore this, we randomly poll 25 students on campus. Suppose we want to know whether or not gender is associated with political party preference at a particular college. This tutorial explains how to perform Fisher’s Exact Test in SPSS. It is typically used as an alternative to the Chi-Square Test of Independence when one or more of the cell counts in a 2×2 table is less than 5.
Fisher’s Exact Test is used to determine whether or not there is a significant association between two categorical variables.