RESEARCH IN FINANCE-PRACTICAL

Paper Code: 
DFSG 714
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

Course Outcomes (Cos):

 

Course Outcomes

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

On completion of this course, the students will be able to:

CO 216 Demonstrate the entry and record of data files using SPSS.

CO 217 Demonstrate and evaluate the graphs and charts through SPSS

CO 218 Determine the measures of central tendency.

CO 219 Examine and Appraise different parametric and non-parametric tests using SPSS

CO 220 Hypothesize a research problem and interpret for correlation and regression analysis using SPSS

Interactive Lectures, Group Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Workshops and question preparation

Quiz, test, assignments and viva-voce

  

 

6.00
Unit I: 
Introduction to SPSS

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

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

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

• 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.

6.00
Unit V: 
Correlation and Regression

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

Essential Readings: 

SUGGESTED TEXT BOOKS
• 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

SUGGESTED REFERENCE BOOKS
• 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-RESOURCES:
• 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

Academic Year: 
2023-2024
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