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Statistical Analysis: Course Outline (APSY-3205)

The processes of analyzing data to find the distribution of a variable (descriptive statistics) or to evaluate the relationship between two or more variables (inferential statistics).

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Course Contents

▪ Introduction to Statistical Package for Social Sciences(SPSS)
▪ Basic features of SPSS
▪ Preparing Data for entering in SPSS
▪ Preparing variable view file
▪ Entering statistical data in data view file
▪ Computing and recoding techniques
▪ Calculating descriptive statistics (Including Mean, Median, Mode and Standard deviation)

▪ Computing differences between Multiple Group using F-test (One-Way ANOVA)
▪ Computing relationship between variables (Correlation)
▪ Regression Analysis
▪ Non parametric statistics
▪ Spearman's Rank Order Correlation, Chi Square Test (Contingency Table and Proportions)
▪ Yates Correction, Wilcoxan test, Mann Whitney -U test, Sign Rank test, Krushkal Wallis
▪ The process and interpretation of SPSS output in form of table and graphical form per
▪ APA format.

Course outcome

After completion of the course the student will be able to:

a) Process research data, prepare variable view file, enter data, and select appropriate analysis as per type of data and hypotheses been formulated.


b) Interpret analysis output file, report results in form of tables and graphic form and interpret results in qualitative form in their research report, thesis and research article.

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