Introduction to SPSS BeginnersPrerequisitesUpdated
Bookings for this module open on THURSDAY, 11 DECEMBER at 10:00 am
For more information see: http://www.ssrmc.group.cam.ac.uk/ssrmc-modules/core/making/windows
This module is part of the Social Science Research Methods Centre training programme which is a shared platform for providing research students with a broad range of quantitative and qualitative research methods skills that are relevant across the social sciences.
Students are taught how to enter data into SPSS, how to use the SPSS environment and how to handle output produced by SPSS. Module will review basic statistical concepts and introduce basic analyses with SPSS.
- Mphil and PhD students from participating departments taking the Social Science Research Methods Centre training programme as part of their research degree
- Students with little or no knowledge of SPSS
- You must have a University Information Services (Computing) Desktop Services password (http://www.ucs.cam.ac.uk/linkpages/newcomers)
- You must have access to CamTools
Number of sessions: 1
| # | Date | Time | Venue | Trainer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wed 14 Jan 2015 14:00 - 17:00 | 14:00 - 17:00 | Titan Teaching Room 2, New Museums Site | map | Eva Maguire |
- What is SPSS?
- SPSS syntax
- Creating variables
- Entering data
- Data handling
- Basic statistical tests using SPSS
- Understanding SPSS output
To introduce students to one of the most frequently used statistics packages for social sciences, SPSS and review basic statistical concepts and introduce basic analyses with SPSS.
- To learn how to enter data into SPSS
- To learn how to use the SPSS environment and how to handle output produced by SPSS
Presentations, demonstrations and practicals
SPSS on MCS
- Andy Field, Discovering Statistics Using IBM SPSS, 4th Ed. 2013 (Sage: London), or any earlier editions.
No preparation reading required.
- To gain maximum benefits from the course it is important that students do not see this course in isolation from the other MPhil courses or research training they are taking.
- Responsibility lies with each student to consider the potential for their own research using methods common in fields of the social sciences that may seem remote. Ideally this task will be facilitated by integration of the SSRMC with discipline-specific courses in their departments and through reading and discussion.
One session of 3 hours
Once in January 2015
Booking / availability