Course outline
Day 1
Basics of SPSS. Descriptive statistics, charts and graphs, hypothesis analysis, testing dependence/independence.
- Different levels of measure: scale, ordinal, nominal.
- Basic descriptive statistics. Measures of central tendency: mean, median, mode. Measures of dispersion: range, standard deviation, variance.
- Graphs and charts: bar chart, pie chart, histogram, scatter plot. Which of them should be used in different situations?
- Hypothesis analysis with SPSS. Testing dependence/independence, Pearson’s chi-square. Levels of significance.
Day 2
SPSS in practice, some useful tips. The "tricks" of dependence/independence testing
- Converting different types of files into ".sav" files. How can one enter raw data into SPSS efficiently, how to label the data.
- Transforming the data.
- Multiple independence analysis - a useful way to circumvent "significance level problems".
- Elementary principal component analysis.
Principal Component Analysis with SPSS.
- Definition and meaning of the principal component.
- Communalities, extraction, variance.
- Usability of the method (the cases of scale and ordinal measures).
- Information content and the distribution of the principal component.
- Omission of variables with insufficient communalities.
Day 3
Factor Analysis with SPSS using a "real example".
- The factor matrix and its interpretation.
- The Maximum Likelihood method. Repairing the model.
- Factor rotation and the varimax method.
- Omission of variables belonging to more than one factor, the appearance of latent variables.
- Establishing factor scores. Statistics of factor scores.
- When the factors explain more than 100%. A common pitfall.
Explanatory models. Analysis of Variance, Regression Analysis.
- Using SPSS for Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
- Twofold ANOVA, interaction.
- Linear regression analysis. When should we accept a regression line?
- Two variable regressions.
Day 4
Charts and tables
- Simple charts: bar, pie, histogram
- Compound charts, chart builder
- Chart editing, 3D effects, color and fill
- Adding special effect to charts, jittering, plethora of graphs
- Saving and manipulating tables
Day 5
SPSS Syntax
- Syntax files
- The syntax editor
- Writing syntax using the Log
- Open up SPSS files using syntax
- Define variables using syntax
- Create compute and autorecord procedures
- Create simple and multiple IF and DO-IF statements
Duration:
5 Days
Venue:
Juba, South Sudan
Investment:
599 USD
Investment Covers:
- Training
- Training Materials
- Certificate
- Lunch and refreshment
- Visa
Confirmed Date:
August 01,2016
Contacts:
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