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This document outlines a 5-session SPSS training course. The course aims to teach students to apply SPSS techniques to analyze socioeconomic problems and academic projects. Students will learn data entry, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, factor analysis, and time series analysis. Certification requires submitting take-home assignments. Sessions will cover SPSS basics, various hypothesis tests, non-parametric tests, factor analysis, and time series analysis through classroom training, practical use of SPSS, and individual help.

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This document outlines a 5-session SPSS training course. The course aims to teach students to apply SPSS techniques to analyze socioeconomic problems and academic projects. Students will learn data entry, descriptive statistics, hypothesis testing, factor analysis, and time series analysis. Certification requires submitting take-home assignments. Sessions will cover SPSS basics, various hypothesis tests, non-parametric tests, factor analysis, and time series analysis through classroom training, practical use of SPSS, and individual help.

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FINSTOCK CONSULTING LTD

SPSS TRAINING
COURSE OUTLINE
COURSE OBJECTIVES;
1. At the end of the training, the student should be able to do the following:
• Apply SPSS techniques in practical analysis of socioeconomic problems
• Apply SPSS techniques in academic projects and thesis
2. Procedures for achieving course objectives:
The course objectives will be achieved through:
• Classroom based style training
• Practical use of the software
• One on one sessions
• Take away practice questions.
CERTIFICATION
To demonstrate completion of the course, the student will be required to hand in answers to practical
take away questions, upon which a certificate will be awarded.
Course requirements:
1. SPSS software ( to be installed at a small fee )
2. SPSS manual-available for photocopy
COURSE CONTENTS
• SPSS Data Entry
• Descriptive Statistics
• Test for normality- Skewness and Kurtosis, Transformations
• Regression and correlation- Interpretation of p-values
• Test of Hypothesis- One sample test, two-sample test, paired T-test, Mann Whitney U test,
ANOVA, Kruskal Wallis and Wilcoxon signed rank sum test.
• Comparing frequencies of events- Chi- Square, Fisher’s exact test
• Factor Analysis-Eigen values, factor loading
• Time series Analysis- Unit roots, ECM, Granger causality and Co-integration

Website: www.finstockconsulting.com

Email: [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]


LESSON PLAN - Session One;
Session Objectives
At the end of session one, the student should be;
1. Competent in SPSS data entry
2. Competent in computing and analyzing descriptive statistics
3. Competent in testing of normality and interpreting skewness and kurtosis coefficients
4. Competent in regressing and interpreting the R squared, p-values, Durbin-Watson and
correlation coefficients
LESSON PLAN - Session two;
Session Objectives
At the end of session two, the student should be;
1. Competent in hypothesis testing using one sample test. Two sample test, paired T-test
and ANOVA.
2. Competent in analyzing p-values from the above tests.
LESSON PLAN - Session three;
Session Objectives
At the end of session three, the student should be;
1. Competent in hypothesis testing using Mann Whitney U test and Kruskal Wallis and
Wilcoxon signed rank sum test
2. Competent in analyzing p-values from the tests above.
LESSON PLAN - Session four;
Session Objectives
At the end of session four, the student should be;
1. Competent in factor analysis, computing Eigen values and factor loading.
2. Competent in interpreting factor loadings.
LESSON PLAN - Session five;
Session Objectives
At the end of session five, the student should be;
1. Competent in Time series analysis (1st & 2nd difference, Unit roots, Co integration, ECM
and Granger causality).
2. Competent in interpreting results from the above tests

Website: www.finstockconsulting.com

Email: [email protected] or [email protected] or [email protected]

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