Course Description
The (optional) first day of this course is for new users of SPSS. You
will learn the basics of SPSS required for the following days of training.
The subsequent days of training will take you through the practical aspects
of statistical analysis. You will learn the concepts behind inferential
statistics and what techniques are appropriate for various situations. You
will use statistical methods to investigate differences in group averages
and between profiles of responses across different categories. Both parametric
and non-parametric tests are covered in the course.
Who Should Attend
- Health Care professionals who need to analyse their data using statistical
methods.
Prerequisites
- Basic statistical knowledge equivalent to one university level course
in Statistics
- Those attending days 2-4 need knowledge of the basics of SPSS
Course Content
Day 1:
- Overview of the main features of SPSS for Windows
- Entering data directly into the SPSS data editor
- Opening spreadsheet and database files
- Defining variables and labels for your data and assigning missing value
codes
- Frequencies, Descriptives and Crosstabulation tables
- Computing new variables and recoding data values
- Creating charts
Days 2, 3 and 4:
- Exploratory data analysis: appropriate descriptive statistics for different
types of data
- Introduction to inferential statistics and hypothesis testing
- Choice of appropriate statistical methods
- Comparing groups: Crosstabulations with chi-square test
- Differences between group means
- Independent samples t-test, paired t-test
- One and Two-way ANOVA + post-hoc tests
- Scatterplots and correlation
- Introduction to Linear regression
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