Data Analysis through SPSS

Paper Code: 
ECO143
Credits: 
4
Contact Hours: 
60.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
12.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to SPSS

About SPSS, Data View and Variable View; Entering Data in SPSS; Measurement Scale; Saving Data File; Importing Data from Excel; Performing Statistical Procedure, Editing Output, Saving and Copying Output; Manipulating Data-Sorting and Selecting Cases, Splitting Data File, Merging Data from Separate Files.

12.00
Unit II: 
Descriptive Statistical Procedures

Descriptive Statistical Procedures; Data Transformation; Data Cleaning - Missing Values, Out-Of-Range Values and Outliers-Boxplot. Normality Tests-Skewness, Kurtosis, P-P Plots, Q-Q Plots, Shapiro-Wilk and Kolmogorov-Smirnov Tests.

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Visual Representation of Data

Visual Representation of Data; Correlation and Regression; Principal Components Analysis.

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Parametric Tests

Parametric Tests- one sample t test, 2 independent samples t-test, paired samples t test, one-way ANOVA and 2-way ANOVA.

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Non - Parametric Tests

Non-Parametric Test-One Sample Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test, 2 Independent Samples Mann-Whitney Test, Paired Sample Wilcoxon Signed-Rank, Kruskal-Wallis Test, Friedman Test, Chi-Square Test.

 

References: 
  1. Andy Field, Discovering Statistics using SPSS, SAGE, New Delhi, 2013 (4th Edition)
  2. A. Rajathi  and P. Chandran,SPSS For You, MJP Publishers, Tamil Nadu.
  3. Elliot T. Berkman and Steven P. Reise, A Conceptual Guide to Statistics Using SPSS(2011), SAGE

 

Academic Session: 
2023-24
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