BUSINESS RESEARCH: INTRODUCTION TO SPSS

Paper Code:

BSG 125

Credits:

6

Contact Hours:

90.00

Max. Marks:

100.00

15.00

Unit I:

Introduction to SPSS

Creating a data file, defining variables, Data Entry, inserting variable, measurement scales, inserting cases, identifying duplicate cases, sorting cases, merging & splitting files, select case.

15.00

Unit II:

Managing Data

Missing data, compute variable, recode variable, rank cases, Weighted Cases.
Frequencies, Descriptive, Cross Tabs, Exploratory, Custom Tables.

20.00

Unit III:

Visual Statistics using SPSS

Chart Builder, Histograms, Box Plots, Bar Charts, Cluster Bar, Stacked Bar, Error bar, Line charts, Pie charts, Editing graphs and Axes

20.00

Unit IV:

Descriptive Statistics using SPSS

Measures of central tendency, variability, deviation from normality, confidence level, Confidence Intervals, Power of the test, Normal Curve, Normality Test, Reliability Analysis.

20.00

Unit V:

Bi variate Correlation using SPSS

Bi variate Correlation, Partial Correlations and the correlation matrix

Essential Readings:

James B Cunningham, Using SPSS: An interactive hands- on Approach, Peacock publisher.
A. Rajathi & P. Chandran, SPSS for You, mjp publishers.
Seyed Reza Hashemian Rahaghi, Farnaz Abed Ashtiani. Basic of Statistics & SPSS, create space independent publishing platform.

References:

SUGGESTED READINGS

Robert H. Carver. Doing Data Analysis with SPSS version 18.0, Cengage publishers.
S. Ajai Gaur. Statistical methods for practice & research: A guide to Data Analysis using SPSS, Sage Publishers.

Note: Latest edition of the readings may be used.

e-RESOURCES

https://edge.sagepub.com/field5e/spss-video-tutorials

https://www.lib.sfu.ca/find/research-tools/spss-resources

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