Statistics for Social Sciences through SPSS

Paper Code: 
ECO 143
Credits: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Unit I: 
  • Introduction to SPSS
  • Classification and Graphing Techniques
  • Measures of Central Tendency
  • Measures of Dispersion
Unit II: 
  • Correlation & Regression Analysis
  • Normal probability curve
  • Chi Square test
  • t-test: independent sample and paired sample
Unit III: 

ANOVA

  • One-way ANOVA
  • Multi factorial ANOVA
Unit IV: 

Non Parametric Statistics

  • Chi-square goodness of Fit
  • Mann-Whitney U Test
  • Kruska-Wallis H test
  • Wilcoxon test
  • Friedman & Kendall’s W
Unit V: 
  • Introduction to Multivariate Analysis
  • Principal Component Analysis
  • Factor Analysis
Essential Readings: 
  1. Hari Shankar Asthana and Braj Bhushan, Statistics for Social Sciences with SPSS Applications, Prentice-Hall of India, New Delhi
  1. Elliot T. Berkman and Steven P. Reise, A Conceptual Guide to Statistics Using SPSS(2011), SAGE
  1. Gupta, S.C.(1993), Fundamentals of Applied Statistics., S.Chand, NewDelhi.
  1. Speigal, M.R. (1992), Theory and Problems of Statistics, McGraw Hill Book Co., London.
  1. Chou, Y. (1975), Statistics Analysis, Holt, Reinhart and Winston, New York.
  1. Croxton, Crowden and Klein (1971), Applied General Statistics, Prentice Hall of India, New Delhi.
  1. Nagar, A.L. and R.K. Das (1993), Basic Statistics, Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
  1. Salvatore, Dominick (1982), Statistics and Econometrics, McGraw Hill, New Delhi Sarantakos, S. 2005, Social Research, Palgrave MacMillan.
Academic Session: 
2017-18
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