Course

Unit 1

Introduction to SPSS – need – uses – Skills required – scope – SPSS windows – common buttons –
commonly used windows – output window – printing output.

Unit 2

Structure of data file – creating – editing data file – entering data – editing.

Unit 3

Managing data – computing new variables – recording – sorting cases – merging files – replacing missing values.

Unit 4

Producing graphs and charts – bar graphs, line graphs – pie charts – Descriptive Statistics – mean –median – mode – variance – standard deviation.

Unit 5

Different types of analysis – Chi-Square – t-Test – correlation – regression – types of regression in application level, simple linear regression – multiple regression, regression modelling.

Course Objective: To familiarize students in application of SPSS software to enable them to easily perform complicated quantitative analysis.

Course Outcomes:

Textbooks:

1. S.L. Gupta, Hitesh Gupta – SPSS 17.0 for Researchers – International Book House
2. Darren George, Paul Mallery – SPSS For Windows Step By Step: A Simple Study Guide And Reference, 17.0 Update – Pearson Education

Reference Books:

1. Lee A. Kirkpatrick, Brooke C. Feeney – A Simple Guide to SPSS for Version 17.0 – Wadsworth Publishing
2. SPSS Inc. – SPSS 17.0 Integrated Student Version – Pearson