Research in Finance-Practical

Paper Code: 
24DFSG714
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This course will enable students to proficiently utilize SPSS for data management, visualization, and statistical analysis, including parametric and non-parametric tests, correlation, and regression, facilitating comprehensive research and data-driven decision-making.

 

Course Outcomes: 

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24DFSG 714

Research in Finance

(Practical)

 

CO259: Demonstrate the entry and record of data files using SPSS.

CO260: Demonstrate and evaluate the graphs and charts through SPSS

CO261: Determine the measures of central tendency.

CO262: Examine and Appraise different parametric and non-parametric tests using SPSS

CO263: Hypothesize a research problem and interpret it for correlation and regression analysis using SPSS

CO264: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction

 

Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, discussions, Tutorials, Practical cases Power point presentations.    

 Learning activities for the students: Self-learning assignments,  Seminar presentation, Live practical problems analysis

CA test, Semester end examinations, Solving problems in tutorials, and Presentations.

 

6.00
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.
Managing Data
• Missing data, compute variable, recode variable, rank cases, Weighted Cases.
• Frequencies, Descriptive, Cross Tabs, Exploratory, Custom Tables.

6.00
Unit II: 
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, Descriptive Statistics using SPSS
• Measures of central tendency, variabiability, Normality Test, Reliability Analysis.

6.00
Unit III: 
Parametric Tests- t-test

• One Sample, Independent Sample, Paired t test.
• Analysis of variance: Assumptions of One Way ANOVA, Testing for differences in mean between the group, Measure of Association, Assumption of Two way ANOVA, Procedure for Testing Two Way ANOVA.

6.00
Unit IV: 
Non Parametric Tests

• Mann Whitney U test, Wilcoxon Signed ranks test, Kruskal Wallis Test, Friedman Test.
• Chi square Test: Test of Independence, 2x2 Cross tabulation, Layered cross tab, Goodness of fit.

Unit V: 
Bi variate Correlation using SPSS

• Bi variate Correlation, Partial Correlations and the correlation matrix
• Regression: Assumptions, Linear Regression, Multiple Regression

Essential Readings: 

• Andy Field, Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS Statistics,Sage Publications
• Kiran Pandya, Smruti Bulsari, Sanjay Sinha, SPSS in Simple Steps, Dreamtech Press
• A. Rajathi & P. Chandran (2012), SPSS for You, MJP publishers.
• Lawrence M Mayers, Glenn C Gamst, A J Guarind, Performing Data Analysis Using SPSS, Wiley

References: 

Suggested Readings:
• S. Ajai Gaur (2009), Statistical methods for practice & research: A guide to Data Analysis using SPSS, Sage Publishers.
• Seyed Reza Hashemian Rahaghi, Farnaz Abed Ashtiani, Basic of Statistics & SPSS, create space independent publishing platform.
• Keith Mc Cormick, Jesus Salcedo, Jon Peck, Andrew Wheeler, SPSS Statistics for Data Analysis and Visualization, Wiley
• James B Cunningham (2011), Using SPSS: An interactive hands- on Approach, Peacock publisher, 3rd Edition.
E-Content:
https://web.s.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/basic?vid=0&sid=0c7f189a-083f-4...
http://ww1.shodhganga.com/
https://shodhgangotri.inflibnet.ac.in/
https://www.scopus.com/home.uri
http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm
https://www.doaj.org/

Reference Journals:

• Business Perspectives and Research
• FIIB Business Review
• Harvard Business Review
• IUP Journal of Accounting Research
• Jindal Journal of Business Research

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