Business Research: Introduction to SPSS

Paper Code: 
ATG / BSG/ FSG 125
Credits: 
6
Contact Hours: 
90.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable students to -

  1. Familiarize participants with Statistical packages i.e. IBM  SPSS. 
  2. Impart knowledge for enabling students to develop data analytics skills and meaningful interpretation to the data sets so as to solve the business/Research problem.

Course Outcomes (Cos):

Course

Learning outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Paper Code

Paper Title

ATG / BSG / FSG 125

Business Research: Introduction to SPSS

(Practical)

The students will-

CO25: Demonstrate and analyze the data entry and recording of SPSS.

CO26: Examine and demonstrate various data managing function of SPSS

CO27: Demonstrate and evaluate the graphs and charts through SPSS

CO28: Determine the measures of central tendency.

CO29:  Determine research problem for chi-square and interpret through chi-square analysis

CO30: Hypothesize a research problem and interpret for correlation analysis           

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Team teaching

 

Learning activities for the students:

Field activities, Presentation, Giving tasks

Quiz, test, assignments and viva-voce

 

15.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to SPSS

• Data Entry, Data Editor, Basic Calculations, Recoding, Missing values, Split file, Weighted Cases, Using EXCEL Data

15.00
Unit II: 
Managing Data

                                                                                           

  • Data Entry, 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, size and   stability,  chi-square analyses

 

20.00
Unit V: 
Bi variate Correlation using SPSS
  • Bi variate  Correlation, Partial Correlations  and  the  correlation matrix

 

Essential Readings: 
  • James B Cunningham (2011), Using SPSS: An interactive hands- on Approach, Peacock publisher, 3rd Edition.
  • A. Rajathi & P. Chandran (2012), SPSS for You, mjp publishers.
  • Seyed Reza Hashemian Rahaghi, Farnaz Abed Ashtiani (2011), Basic of Statistics & SPSS, create space independent publishing platform.
  • Robert H. Carver (2013), Doing Data Analysis with SPSS version 18.0, Cengage publishers, 5th edition.
  • S. Ajai Gaur (2009), Statistical methods for practice & research: A guide to Data Analysis using SPSS, Sage Publishers, 2nd edition.

 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022
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