SPSS for Statistical Data Analysis

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Course content:

This course contains the following topics:

Chapter 1: Getting started (March 2-3 2024)
-- Installing (trial version) and opening SPSS
-- SPSS Data, Output and Syntax windows
-- SPSS file menus
-- Getting help in SPSS

Chapter 2: Importing Data (March 2-3 2024)
-- Manually inputting data in SPSS
-- Import and open .xlsx, .csv, .txt, .sav, .dta and other file formats
-- Data and Variable views

Chapter 3: Data Manipulation (March 9-10 2024)
-- Select Cases
-- Sorting of Cases
-- Visual Binning
-- Data Merge
-- Splitting data

Chapter 4: Manipulating Variables (March 9-10 2024)
--Creating New Variables
-- Recoding into Different Variables
-- Recoding into Same Variables
-- Summarisation of Data
-- Measurement Scales

Chapter 5: Exploring data (March 16-17 2024)
-- Frequency Tables
-- Descriptive Statistics
-- Generating a Histogram
-- Generating Statistics
-- Building Graphs Easily
-- Cross Tables

Chapter 6: Statistical Analysis (March 23-24 2024)
-- Hypothesis Testing
-- P-Values and Confidence Intervals
-- Distributions
-- T-Tests
-- Correlation Analysis
-- Linear Regression
-- Simple Linear Regression
-- Multiple Linear Regression

Bonus Chapter: SPSS for R Users

Course leader

Dr Emmanuel Abatih

Target group

This course is best suited for students who have only little or no experience with SPSS. Basic knowledge of statistics will be considered a plus but not necessary.

Course aim

This hands-on online course aims at introducing SPSS to young researchers interested in data analysis and interpretation. The course will run over the weekends on Saturdays and Sundays for 2 hours each day from 14h to 16h. The sessions will be recorded.

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